Quotes About Humility

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful, while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless beside being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with, he who knows nothing about a subject, and what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, — or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?

I will not through humility become the devil's attorney

I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

Notwithstanding much cant and hypocrisy—chaff which I find it difficult to separate from my wheat, but for which I am as sorry as any man—I will breathe freely and stretch myself in this respect, it is such a relief to both the moral and physical system; and I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Still we live meanly like ants.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

What we will call beautiful Knowledge, a knowledge useful in a higher sense: for what is most of our boated so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?

It enriches us infinitely to recognize greater qualities than we possess in another.

All true greatness runs as level a course, and is as unaspiring, as the plow in the furrow. It wears the homeliest dress and speaks the homeliest language

Und wirklich, je mehr er sich zu erniedrigen schien, desto mehr schien er erhöht zu werden.

Quienes no conocen otras fuentes de verdad más puras, quienes no han seguido su curso hasta sus orígenes, están, y con razón, del lado de la Biblia y la Constitución y beben de ellas con reverencia y humildad. Pero aquellos que van más allá y buscan el origen del agua que gotea sobre el lago o la charca, se ciñen los lomos una vez más y siguen su peregrinación en busca del manantial.

A mennyekbe sóvárgunk? – hisz a Földnek is szégyenére válunk!

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful—while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with—he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney.

Una vez se posó un gorrión sobre mi hombro durante un instante mientras escardaba en un jardín y sentí más orgullo por esa distinción que por cualquier charretera que hubiera podido colgarme

None is so poor that he need sit on a pumpkin.

Patience. Kindness. Generosity. Humility. Courtesy. Unselfishness. Good temper. Guilelessness. Sincerity. All these things make up the Supreme Gift, and are there in the soul of whoever wishes to be in the world and close to God.

The man who has no opinion of himself at all can never be hurt if others do not acknowledge him. Hence, be meek. He who is without expectation cannot fret if nothing comes to him. It is self-evident that these things are so. The lowly man and the meek man are really above all other men, above all other things.

I hope my friends will pardon me when I declare, I know none of them without a fault;

As Morris R. Cohen has remarked: "The notion that we can dismiss the views of all previous thinkers surely leaves no basis for the hope that our own work will prove of any value to others."1

When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: "Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.

We see our lives from our own point of view; that is the privilege of the weakest and humblest of us;

Her desire to think well of herself had at least the element of humility that it always needed to be supported by proof.

People are proud only when they have something to lose, and humble when they have something to gain.