Quotes About Humility

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

Always be humble enough to learn something new. Otherwise, it's only a matter of time before your knowledge becomes outdated.

No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend.

Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego

They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say.

When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything.

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

And the famous invocation is for light and understanding: 'Lead me from the unreal to the real! Lead me from darkness to light! Lead me from death to immortality.'… There is no humility about this quest, the humility before an all-powerful deity, so often associated with religion. In a morning prayer, the sun is addressed thus: 'O sun of refulgent glory, I am the same person as makes thee what thou art.' What a superb self-confidence!

I don't know why, but this seemed like one of the nicest things I had learned in the woods--that earthworms, lowly, confined to the darkness of the earth, could make just a little stir in the world.

Dear God, I know how far short I fall of focusing on what is truly important. Help me always to remember what is important to You—what's inside rather than outside—and then give me the power through Your Spirit to develop those inward characteristics that please You. In Your name today, Lord, I put on gentleness and kindness and patience and self-control and all the rest. Thank You for what You're accomplishing in my life already. Amen.

Humility can only be born out of humiliation

Pray you now forget, and forgive: I am old and foolish

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; and pride, two bent knees.

academics must maintain a delicate balance between necessary humility and the determination

we use math not because we're smart, but because we aren't smart enough.

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.

Where would you intellectuals be without us lower grade morons to lead you around? Totally lost, that's where!

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness