Quotes About Humility

Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.

If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.

For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.

For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.

All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.

To know, is to know that you know nothing.

The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.

The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don't know.

One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.

Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.

Whoever attacks a matter without knowledge cuts off his own nose.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.