Quotes About Humility

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Mercedes] learns a valuable lesson: if you think you are good, just try doing good. You'll soon find out how inadequate your little drop of goodness is.

Humildad tiene que ver también con «humor». El humilde tiene humor. Se puede reír de sí mismo. Toma distancia de sí. Puede mirarse tranquilo a sí mismo porque se permite ser como es: un ser humano de la tierra y un ser humano del cielo, una persona con faltas y debilidades y, al mismo tiempo, digna de amor y valiosa.

When a job applicant starts telling me how Pacific Rim-job cuisine turns him on and inspires him, I see trouble coming. Send me another Mexican dishwasher anytime. I can teach him to cook. I can't teach character. Show up at work on time six months in a row and we'll talk about red curry paste and lemon grass. Until then, I have four words for you: 'Shut the fuck up.

Looking at these photographs, I know that I will never understand the world I live in or fully know the places I've been. I've learned for sure only what I don't know - and how much I have to learn.

when the chef starts thinking he's an artist rather than a craftsman.

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

When we pray we admit defeat.

The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus , who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus , ' If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils .' Said [author:Diogenes|3213618, 'Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else." "I know. An overwhelming passion for it." "No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

Having gone through it all had changed our outlooks. You can't be as much of a bitch as you were before, you can't be as much as an egomaniac, you can't feel as much like the world owed you something, you can't be the 'where's mine?' guy.

Wisdom is the power to admit that you cannot understand and judge the people in their entirety.

Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

After all, then, she was not a clever woman,—not more clever than other women around her! 

The author now leaves him in the hands of his readers: not as a hero, not as a man to be admired and talked of, not as a man who should be toasted at public dinners and spoken of with conventional absurdity as a perfect divine, but as a good man, without guile, believing humbly in the religion which he has striven to teach, and guided by the precepts which he has striven to learn.

Poor Mr. Smith, having been so rudely dragged from his high horse, was never able to mount it again, and completed the lecture in a manner not at all comfortable to himself.

He is no better than anybody else that I can see, and he is beginning to give himself airs

I daresay I am an idiot," said Miss Macnulty, resuming her novel.

never so solemn a hermit; but a bright face, a true trusting heart, a strong arm, and an humble mind, might do much in teaching those around him that men may be gay and yet not profligate, that women may be devout and yet not dead to the world.