Quotes About Humility

Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little.

I wish I could say I was wise and clever, but I'm really not.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

A wise man has to know his limitations. I figured that out pretty quickly.

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

It takes a very wise man to act the fool.

The mark of a wise person isn't never making mistakes - everyone makes plenty of them. Rather, it's the ability to quickly admit - and fix - them!

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.

The change that I never fall into is the, 'I'm-above-you-look-at-me-do-stuff-for-me change.' The change that I'm hoping I get to is where I become wiser, smarter - where I put myself in situations that don't have a huge potential for disaster.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.

I have never imagined being or wished to be chosen as something important in the world.

I've never wished for people to recognise me or anything.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.