Quotes About Humility

It is well for one to know more than he says.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.

Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.

Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.

Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.

As for me all I know is that I know nothing.

I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.

What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?

I've learned one thing-people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest.

Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.

The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

Strange how much you've got to know Before you know how little you know.

A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

For all my wanderings, I'm ordinary. I came to terms long ago with my littleness. A man is what he is--he can't rise so much as an inch above his shortcomings--Horatio Alger be damned!

...the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.

He who thinks they know it all, is bound to take the greatest fall.

We don't really know anything. Those who accept this are more likely to learn something.

We might not be equal in what we know but we are surely equal, in what we do not know.

We might not be equal in what we know but we are equal in what we do not know.