Quotes About Humility

Who can free himself from achievementAnd from fame,Descend and be lostAmid the masses of men?He will flow like the Tao, unseen.Such is the perfect man: His boat is empty.

After Gell-Man was done, Amos said, "You know, Murray, there is no one in the world who is as smart as you think you are.

They actually spent time wondering how people who had been so sensationally right (i.e., they themselves) could preserve the capacity for diffidence and doubt and uncertainty that had enabled them to be right. The more sure you were of yourself and your judgment, the harder it was to find opportunities premised on the notion that you were, in the end, probably wrong. The

Take whatever is thrown at you and build upon it. "Yes . . . and" rather than "No . . . but." "The idiot is bound by his pride," he says. "It always has to be his way. This is also true of the person who is deceptive or doing things wrong: he always tries to justify himself. A person who is bright in regard to his spiritual life is humble. He accepts what others tell him—criticism, ideas—and he works with them.

Clark's new enterprises: endure the humiliation of not fully understanding your job, and you might never need to work again.

Much later, he heard Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel laureate in physics, hold forth on seemingly every subject under the sun. After Gell-Man was done, Amos said, "You know, Murray, there is no one in the world who is as smart as you think you are." Once

The University of Michigan psychologist Dick Nisbett, after he'd met Amos, designed a one-line intelligence test: The sooner you figure out that Amos is smarter than you are, the smarter you are.

I believe in God, but I'll never be nominated for saint

The trait [Morey] looked for was awareness that they were seeking answers to questions with no certain answers--that they were inherently fallible. I always ask them, 'Who did you miss?' he said. Which future superstar had they written off, or which future bust had they fallen in love with? If they don't give me a good one, I'm like, 'Fuck 'em.

You shouldn't say mean things to people before they kill you. It's being a sore loser.

He spoke of how viewers of his films should not assume they understood everything about the characters. As members of an audience we should never feel ourselves wiser than they; we do not have more knowledge than the characters have about themselves. We should not feel assured or certain about their motives, or look down on them. I believe this. I recognize this as a first principle of art, although I have the suspicion that many would not.

Know everything.  Pretend you know nothing, but know it all.

Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.

Now I'm inclined to think a much better and certainly more useful antonym for "spiritual" might be "egotistical." Self

I look upon pride as a sin.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

People say, 'Since you got rich and famous, you've become insufferable.' I say, 'That's not true. I've always been insufferable.'

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in your church to have more humility and sincere love.