Quotes About Humility

If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.

A blind man will suffer himself to be led, though by a dog, or a child.

Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far."

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.

Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess.

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.

Then gently scan your brother man,Still gentler sister woman;Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang,To step aside is human.

They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.

They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud.

A mere scholar, a mere ass.

To err is human, to purr is feline.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs.

Seduction requires an openness to the other person, a willingness to bend and adapt. Excessive pride, without anything to justify it, is highly anti-seductive.

When I left him, I reasoned thus with myself: I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know. —Socrates

Second, never imagine that because the master loves you, you can do anything you want. Entire books could be written about favorites who fell out of favor by taking their status for granted, for daring to outshine.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for, by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgement, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Know How Little You Know

Commit harmless mistakes that will not hurt you in the long run but will give you the chance to ask for his help. Masters adore such requests.

When you reveal the inner workings of your creation, you become just one mere mortal among others. What is understandable is not awe inspiring