Quotes About Humility

People are not dull to me, if they are real. I pity that poor lady. She is proud of her blood and yet not ashamed of her poverty.

The fact is, he never was wrong. He couldn't go wrong. He lacked guile, and he feared God, — and a man who does both will never go far astray. I don't think he ever coveted aught in his life, — except a new case for his violoncello and somebody to listen to him when he played it.

but don't scold me; you see how humble I am; not only humble but umble, which I look upon to be the comparative, or, indeed, superlative degree. Or perhaps there are four degrees; humble, umble, stumble, tumble; and then, when one is absolutely in the dirt at their feet, perhaps these big people won't wish one to stoop any further.

Se misericordioso, aunque nadie haya tenido misericordia de ti

By this act He affirms that the enemy of love is pride, and that the enemy of all good is the refusal to love.

the more sure I am that I'm right, the more likely I will actually be mistaken. My need to be right makes it more likely that I will be wrong! Likewise, the more sure I am that I am mistreated, the more likely I am to miss ways that I am mistreating others myself. My need for justification obscures the truth.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings; the humble, his blessings.

Jesus," said my father, when I called to tell him I'd been hired to write for The New Yorker. "Well, nowhere to go but down.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

The ideal man, takes joy in doing favours for others; but he feels ashamed to have others do favours for him. For it is a mark of superiority to confer a kindness; but it is a mark of inferiority to receive it.

God give me, he prayed, a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst.

To those who want sustainable organizations and communities, my advice is: begin by being humble. Go back to school. Learn awareness. Learn about rank. You will save yourself and your community a lot of pain.

It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.

If we both believe that we have nothing to learn from the other, is it not obvious that we will both be wrong?

I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of absolute omnipotence;

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

The stars are not for Man.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

It is that the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.