Quotes About Humility

Una ignorancia lúcida es la que te permite aprender de otros sin arrogancia, reconocer tus límites sin complejos y sin sentirte incompleto por ello.

Si será modesto que se cree inferior a sí mismo. ÁLVARO DE FIGUEROA Y TORRES

la comunidad te hace un reconocimiento o una felicitación honesta y franca, no los desprecies ni les des a entender que se equivocaron. No digas que no la mereces ¡di gracias y cállate!

Qué se opone a la arrogancia/soberbia? La virtud de la humildad, la cual consiste en reconocerse a sí mismo tal como uno es, sin sobrevalorase ni despreciarse.

Si el descentramiento nos permite viajar hacia otra persona y conocerla, la humildad nos permite aprender de ella. La humildad libera la mente de la agotadora y casi siempre innecesaria competencia de querer ser más, de pavonearse, de recordarle al mundo lo que somos. La modestia, decía Jankélévitch, "nos retiene en el camino recto de la inocencia". Yo diría que, además, nos acerca al asombro. No puede haber pensamiento flexible sin humildad.

bajeza o humillación. En otras palabras, la mente flexible tiene en cuenta la norma, pero también aquellos factores complementarios y equilibrantes que la apaciguan.

La mansedumbre sin dignidad es bajeza o humillación. En otras palabras, la mente flexible tiene en cuenta la norma, pero también aquellos factores complementarios y equilibrantes que la apaciguan.

La duda progresista (no retardataria) y bien manejada induce un sentido de modestia y es un buen remedio, si no el mejor, para la testarudez. No ser presuntuoso de las propias creencias, valores o ideología nos exime de la vanidad intelectual y el desgaste que implica querer siempre tener razón.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Do not allow your clothing to attract attention. Seek not to please by the clothes you wear but by the life you live.

Be nice to those you meet on the way up. They're the same folks you'll meet on the way down.

seeing how small our affairs look in the larger scheme of things, the Stoic means to induce a felt sense of humility and attraction to virtue. The method can be called intuitive because it isn't a matter of argument. It's more a question of showing and pointing, and expecting perceptions and adjustments to follow directly from a new point of view.

Our criticisms of others therefore have a side benefit. They provide an unintentional glimpse at what is ugliest within us.

I position myself relentlessly as an idiot at IDEO," Bennett observes. "And that's not a negative, it's a positive. Because being comfortable with not knowing—that's the first part of being able to question.

embrace ignorance

In Hal Gregersen's study of business leaders who question, he found that they exhibited an unusual "blend of humility and confidence"15—they were humble enough to acknowledge a lack of knowledge, and confident enough to admit this in front of others.

What makes you think you know more than the experts? (The answer is that you don't know more, you know less—which sometimes is a good thing.) Another

In some ways, it can be more difficult or risky for those in authority to question. In Hal Gregersen's study of business leaders who question, he found that they exhibited an unusual "blend of humility and confidence"15—they were humble enough to acknowledge a lack of knowledge, and confident enough to admit this in front of others.

All of which means that, whereas in the past one needed to appear to have "all the answers" in order to rise in companies, today, at least in some enlightened segments of the business world, the corner office is there for the askers

Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.

In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.