Quotes About Humility

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.

There was nothing to be gained by making a man feel unkind for having to refuse a favor, or weak in revealing his inability to do so.

We have named all the stars and all the planet, even though they might already have had names of their own. What a nerve!

It might hear us. But what's its name? We have named all the stars and all the planets, even though they might already have had names of their own. What a nerve!

We have named all the stars and all the planets, even though they might already have had names of their own. What a nerve!

La primera obligación de la Inteligencia es la desconfianza hacia sí misma.

My, my jeste?my pospolici, jeste?my traw? wszech?wiata i szczycimy si? t? nasz? pospolito?ci?, ?e taka powszechna, i my?leli?my, ?e wszystko mo?na w niej pomie?ci?.

the old doctrine of ignoramus et ignorabimus—"we do not know and will not know.

Want to hear my favorite definition of a human? A creature who likes to talk most about what he knows least.

La ignorancia de la propia ignorancia acompaña firmemente al conocimiento.

Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

Self-confidence is not a form of arrogance. It is trust in our capacity to awaken. It is both the courage to face whatever life throws at us without losing equanimity, and the humility to treat every situation we encounter as one from which we can learn.

There are other people who have it a lot worse

Some people really do have it a lot worse than I do. They really do.

Decía que el mundo podía intentar quitártelo todo una y otra vez. Pero que, al final, tenías que entregar tu orgullo.

If there's a better book than this, I haven't written it.

Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea.

Daddy, were you a hero? And he answered, No, but I served with heroes.

People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. Stephen, they say, accusingly, you know a lot. This is a bit like telling a person who has a few grains of sand clinging to him that he owns much sand. When you consider the vast amount of sand there is in the world such a person is, to all intents and purposes, sandless. We are all sandless. We are all ignorant. There are beaches and deserts and dunes of knowledge whose existance we have never even guessed at, let alone visited.

You'll often hear the phrase science doesn't know everything. Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.

I believe one of the greatest human failings is to prefer to be right than to be effective

Remember, cautioned the centaur. Modesty. Observance of the gods. In a fight do not do what you want to do, but what you judge you're enemy least wants you to. You cannot control others if you cannot control yourself. Those who most understand their own limitations have the fewest.

The fool doth think he is wise, yet it is the wise man that knows himself to be the fool As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 1