Quotes About Humility

Stoop, then, or you will be beaten to your knees. Stoop voluntarily, and you may save a remnant. You have depended on metal and power and they have sustained you as far as they could. You have ignored mind and morale and they have failed you.

I'm being accused of modesty, a horrible and thoroughly unnatural crime.

The thanks of a weak one are but of little value, he muttered, but you have them, for truly, in this past week, little but scraps have come my way- and for all my body is small, yet is my appetite unseemly great.

A man without weaknesses serves only to make everyone else conscious of his own imperfections. A primitive poet named Tennyson once wrote: 'He is all fault who has no fault at all.

No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth...

Even as though dearest with th en humble and defenseless, thus shalt though be dealt with.

In ogni secolo gli esseri umani hanno pensato di aver capito definitivamente l'Universo e, in ogni secolo, si è capito che avevano sbagliato. Da ciò segue che l'unica cosa che possiamo dire oggi sulle nostre conoscenze è che sono sbagliate.

Because it is not wise to trust one's self overmuch. We naturally see our virtues with clearer eyes than we see our defects. We are anxious to do what is right; not necessarily what seems right to us, but what is right, objectively, if such a thing as objective right exists.

El caso es que la humanidad no está distinguiéndose demasiado en la administración de los asuntos terrestres. Puede que llegue el día en que tengamos que hacernos humildemente a un lado y dejar las cosas en manos de quien las sepa llevar mejor. Y si no nos hacemos a un lado, es posible que llegue el Supercomputador y nos aparte por las malas.

He who is needed must learn to endure flattery.

He's a low-born rascal who has by unfailing flattery tickled the whims of the Emperor. He's well-hated by the court aristocracy, vermin themselves, because he can lay claim to neither family nor humility. He is the Emperor's adviser in all things, and the Emperor's tool in the worst things. He is faithless by choice but loyal by necessity. There is not a man in the Empire as subtle in villainy or as crude in his pleasures.

A man without weaknesses serves only to make everyone else conscious of his own imperfections. A primitive poet named Tennyson once wrote: 'He is all fault who has no fault at all.' 

Akl? ba??nda insan, haddini bilen insand?r

He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist; maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. He smiled with humility when he remembered...

It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.

No creas que eres alguien especial o mejor que los otros, acuérdate de que al clavo más prominente le cae el martillazo».

Con la edad se adquiere cierta humildad, Alexander. Mientras más años cumplo, más ignorante me siento. Sólo los jóvenes tienen explicación para todo. A tu edad se puede ser arrogante y no importa mucho hacer el ridículo —replicó ella secamente.

Ahora, con la perspectiva del tiempo y de la libertad que he adquirido en los últimos años, comprendo cuánto me humillé por amor. Dejé de lado todo, desde mi personalidad hasta mi trabajo, por soñar en un paraíso doméstico que no era para mí.

the Nordic concept of janteloven, which meant: Don't think you're so special—remember that the nail that sticks out is the one the hammer hits.

la fatuidad es privilegio de ignorantes; el sabio es humilde porque sabe cuán poco sabe

Eso de examinar cada acción pasada y presente y de andar flagelándote es una perversión, un pecado de soberbia. No eres tan importante.

Quiero transformar la rabia en energía creativa y la culpa en una burlona aceptación de mis fallas; quiero barrer hacia fuera la arrogancia y la vanidad. No

With age, you acquire a certain humility, Alexander. The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything. At your age, you can afford to commit the sin of arrogance, and it doesn't matter much if you look ridiculous," his grandmother lectured.