Quotes About Humility

Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.

A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.

Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.

I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.

If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respects for others' talents.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Often the strongest evidence of my growth in grace is my growth in the knowledge of my need for grace.

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

One cannot know everything.

I like to feel dumb. That's how I know there's more in the world than me.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

What you don't do is just say, "I've got all the ideas and all the knowledge, and listen to me."

I know enough now to know I know nothing.

Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.