Quotes About Humility

The beginning of wisdom is the statement 'I don't know'. The person who cannot make that statement is one who will never learn anything.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.

A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.

Every jackass thinks he's got horse sense.

A lot of folks would do more prayin' if they could find a soft spot for their knees.

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

It's difficult to dispel arrogance if you retain ignorance.

I'm an average photographer with a great God.

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

Proverbs 19:11

A third way urges disputants to recognize the limits of their personal responsibility for the actions of others and to leave the execution of a judgment to God.

I have learned that there's no way to open yourself to the experience of God while retaining your cool, your sense of ironic detachment.

Our supper is plain but we are very wonderful.

Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean, and be it done with humility… A man is a sacred thing. ANY ACTION OR THOUGHT WHICH INJURES THE HUMAN IMAGINATION IS EVIL.

Truly, I am saying to you, Whoever does not receive the kingdom of God in the same manner as a little child, will positively not enter it.

You don't deserve it, he said aloud. Don't ever begin to think that you do.

Your people must learn to give up their arrogance. They are not the only ones placed on this earth. Theirs is not the only way. People have worshiped the Creator and loved their families in many ways in all places. Your people must learn to honor this.

Barney spotted our neighbor's lawn, where he promptly took care of his business. There I was, the former president of the United States, with a plastic bag on my hand, picking up that which I had been dodging for the past eight years.

Science is a subordinate category. When science offers itself as the final stage or form of knowing, it is guilty of a false quantity, in that it puts the accent, which belongs elsewhere, upon the penultimate.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.

autêntica humildade -- um coração mais interessado na glória de Deus do que na nossa, e mais aplicado a servir aos outros do que a nós mesmos. Esta é, de fato, a postura da humildade para a qual Deus olha.