Quotes About Humility

He has a mouth, lord, Gerbruht said. I envy him, I said. Envy him, lord? Most of us have to lower our trews to shit.

It is a book of truths, that money and power are not the right ambitions of a virtuous man, but that justice, charity, and humility will bring you contentment.

Uma das coisas que não suporto nos cristãos é sua admiração pela humildade. Imagine transformar a humildade numa virtude! Humildade! Você consegue imaginar um céu cheio somente de humildes? Que ideia pavorosa! A comida ficaria fria enquanto todo mundo ia passando os pratos uns para os outros. A humildade não é boa, Derfel. A raiva e o egoísmo são as qualidades que fazem o mundo marchar.

Souviens-toi que tu n'es qu'un homme.»

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know, we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.

It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

A truly scientific philosophy will be more humble, more piecemeal, more arduous, offering less glitter of outward mirage to flatter fallacious hopes, but more indifferent to fate, and more capable of accepting the world without the tyrannous imposition of our human and temporary demands.

Modesty... consists in pretending not to think better of ourselves and our belongings than of the man we are speaking to and his belongings.

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of very great importance

When a man tells you he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring he is an inexact man.

The wise man will try to live unnoticed, so as to have no enemies.

There is reason to think, that if men were better instructed themselves, they would be less imposing on others.

Nadie debería creerse perfecto, ni preocuparse demasiado por el hecho de no serlo.

If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts.

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, and the intelligent are full of doubt.

in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.

Toombo. Look at the roundness of your belly. Look at the heaviness of your legs!' Toombo looks. 'God makes fat birds and small birds, trees that are wide and trees that are thin, like wattle. He makes big kernels and little kernels. I am a big kernel. One does not argue with God.' The theosophism defeats Otieno;

Make no excuses. Rationalize nothing. Blame no one. Humble yourself.

We need to recognize that lack of confidence does not equal humility. In fact, genuinely humble people have enormous confidence because it rests in a great God.

We have a crippling tendency to forget what God has done for us. For a while, we're humbled. Then, if we do not guard our hearts and minds, we begin to think we must have done something right for God to have been so good to us. Therein lies another road to captivity. It is the road of legalism.

A man is his tallest when he is down on his knees in prayer.