Quotes About Humility

Offer up your modesty as a sacrifice to service and revel.

It basically means, we don't know shit about anything

we don't know shit about anything

No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.

Half the troubles in life come from pretending to oneself that one is a better and finer human being than one is';

Never criticize, unless you can do a better job.

Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.

Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.

Nothing like pointing out mistakes someone else is making to help you ignore your own.

No genuine artist views himself as superior in essence to others.

Fiction writing starts off by requiring the towering arrogance that enables one to sit down at the typewriter in the belief that someone somewhere will actually be eager to read the productions of our own private imaginations. But that arrogance must be buffered by the humility that leads us to learn our craft and strive to make our work comprehensible and inviting and accessible to the reader.

Humility! The last trap that awaits the ego in search of absolute truth.

Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy.

How sad it is when someone comes to you looking for Jesus and all they see is you.

It was a frying-pan-to-the-face moment for me where I had to get humble and really cherish it. I was really sad when [Numbers] was over. I'll just say that. Really sad.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

Hubris and science are incompatible.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.