Quotes About Humility

I have no inclination to seek attention.

Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here.

We're very, very flawed, myself included.

Besides, I'm fairly incompetent. I can't play that fast.

I'll go out at night and look up at the stars and think, 'How ridiculously inconsequential I am in the scheme of things.'

Asking for help doesn't mean your doctor is incompetent; rather, it should increase your faith in his or her abilities and humility.

Let me explain something: I'm not incredibly rich.

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

Great big houses with great big rooms Were not fashioned for brides and grooms A little place is where we should be Great big troubles and great big cares Come from houses with marble stairs A little place for you and for me

When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

For there is in man too: a vaunting pride that needs little sustenance to make it swell to giant size. Improve his lot, and he will forget that which makes him pleasing- his sense of worship, his humility. He will grow poisoned with pride and fancy himself a god...

Weinig mensen kunnen het nalaten zichzelf hoog te achten met betrekking tot de kennis die zij zich eens hebben verworven, zelfs als zijn deze zijn kwijtgeraakt. En als zij niet erg bescheiden en discreet zijn, zullen de onverteerde flarden die zulke mensen zich gewoonlijk van het Latijn herinneren, hen bijna altijd op een of ander moment belachelijk maken voor degenen die er wel goed van op de hoogte zijn.

the humblest man alive must confess, that the reward of a virtuous action, which is the satisfaction that ensues upon it, consists in a certain pleasure he procures to himself by contemplating on his own worth: which pleasure, together with the occasion of it, are as certain signs of pride, as looking pale and trembling at any imminent danger, are the symptoms of fear.

Le jour où la société humaine n'éprouvera plus de sentiment de supériorité ou de crainte devant un phénomène naturel, l'homme sera en homéostasie avec son univers. Il connaîtra l'équilibre. Il ne se projettera plus dans le futur. Il ne se fixera pas d'objectifs lointains. Il vivra dans le présent tout simplement.

The more you learn, the more you know that you're not so hot.

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

St. Philip Neri: Imagine yourselves to be spiritual beggars in the presence of God and his saints. You should go round from saint to saint, imploring an alms with the same real earnestness with which the poor beg.

Una delle principali cause della miseria delle scienze sta, molto spesso, nella loro presunzione di essere ricche. Scopo della scienza non è tanto quello di aprire una porta all'infinito sapere, quanto quello di porre una barriera all'infinita ignoranza.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.