Quotes About Humility

You choose to play God, and the Deity points out that the post is already adequately filled.

After five years of villainy, I promise you, I have the refinement of a cow-cabbage.

It is not advisable to crow. It might be oneself next time.

He is beautiful, and whole, and has learned to offer the world a humble and desperate obedience. You called him a pawn. He has begun to follow his trade.

Humility is a virtue Scotsmen require to be taught.

My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all.

nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular)

In my experience, the older a medical man gets, the less willing he is to make ex cathedra pronouncements, and the more he learns that Nature has her own way of confounding self-confident prophets.

to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes.

Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.

This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

Don't try taking over the Almighty's job," he said. "He's much better at it than you

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were fat more intelligent than man, for precisely the same reason

Several billion trillion tons of superhot exploding hydrogen nuclei rose slowly above the horizon and managed to look small, cold and slightly damp. There

He knew where his towel was.

Hey, kid, you just saved our lives, you know that? Oh, well, it was nothing really... Was it? Oh well, forget it then

La scienza ha raggiunto traguardi meravigliosi, certo, ma io preferirei essere felice piuttosto che avere sempre ragione.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.