Quotes About Humility

Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.

I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.

I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.

I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.

Don't overstate your likely achievements; when in doubt, understate them.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

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

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Ego=1/Knowledge More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.

I don't pretend to understand the universe — it's much bigger than I am.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shpwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

True genius never says he know what he is doing

In the United States everyone feels assured of his worth as an individual. No one humbles himself before another person or class. Even the great difference in wealth, the superior power of a few, cannot undermine this healthy self-confidence and natural respect for the dignity of one's fellow-man.

Not mastery but service," will lead people in the right way.

What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility towards the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.

Wenn ich rechne und sehe ein winziges Insekt das auf meine Papier geflogen ist dann fühle ich etwas wie Allah ist Gross (Allahu Akbar) und wir sind armseliges Tröpfe mit unseren ganzen Wissenschaften Herrlichkeit

As a human being one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.

This is what I have to say about Bach's life's work: listen, play, love, revere – and keep your trap shut.

Like Petrach's, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I'm grateful that they even tolerate my presence. At times I feel that I abuse the privilege.