Quotes About Humility

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." [Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]

Indeed, until one tries it for himself, it is incredible what dignity there is in an old hat, what virtue in a time-worn coat, and how savory the dinner-table can be made without sirloin steaks and cranberry tarts.

Another iron door, on which was writ,Be not too bold.

Nunca. Nunca, jamás, hay que caer en manos de un boludo. Porque si uno termina en manos de un boludo significa que uno también es un boludo. Un boludo más boludo aún que el boludo en cuyas manos cayó.

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

The itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things. Let them and leave them alone--they'll survive for a few more thousand years, more or less, without any glorification from us.

It is vital that we avoid any hint of moral superiority in our dealings with one another in the environmental movement; if it developed into factionalism it would destroy us, as factionalism has destroyed so many other progressive movements in America.

I thought I was wrong once," Seldom said, "but I found out later I was mistaken.

The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

La planète est plus grande que nous ne l'avons jamais imaginée. Le monde est plus froid, plus ancien, plus étrange et plus mystérieux que nous ne l'avons jamais rêvé. Et nous, misérables créatures humaines avec nos innombrables outils et jouets et peurs et espoirs ne sommes qu'une petite feuille sur le grand arbre efflorescent de la vie.

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say ? it leaves me something to do.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

To cultivate a pleasure in being wrong sounds perverse, yet losing an argument means escaping from an old idea and the acquisition of a new way of looking at things.

Modesty: The art of encouraging people to find out for themselves how wonderful you are.

When you're climbing the ladder, don't forget the rungs.

Confucius say: "Baseball wrong — man with four balls cannot walk."

Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies."

We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, Which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, By thought, word, and deed, Against thy Divine Majesty, Provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us. We do earnestly repent, And are heartily sorry for these our misdoings; The remembrance of them is grievous unto us; The burden of them is intolerable.

Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?

When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord, She shall be praised. (Proverbs 31:30 Modern King James Version)

God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.