Quotes About Humility

Which, translated into workaday language, means that none of us know very much, and by the very nature of our being can never know as much as we need to know in order to live sanely and enjoy life while we live.

Awake, arise, and assert yourself, you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in the ascendency. The world depression brought the opportunity you have been waiting for. It taught people humility, tolerance, and open-mindedness. The world is filled with an abundance of OPPORTUNITY which the dreamers of the past never knew.

Adversity relieves people of vanity and egotism. It discourages selfishness by proving that no one can succeed without the cooperation of others.

Cuando un hombre se consume por el deseo de posesiones materiales y poder personal sobre sus semejantes, y olvida que su más grande privilegio en el plano terrestre es prestar un servicio útil a los demás, crea un arma de autodestrucción.

Biasanya orang yang tahu sedikit akan berusaha menimbilkan kesan mereka tahu banyak hal. Orang seperti ini biasanya terlalu banyak bicara dan kurang mendengar.

El curso de las cosas acontece para enseñarnos la fe. Sólo tenemos que obedecer. Hay claves para cada uno de nosotros, y si escuchamos con humildad, oiremos la palabra justa".

My lesson from Soros is to start every meeting at my boutique by convincing everyone that we are a bunch of idiots who know nothing and are mistake-prone, but happen to be endowed with the rare privilege of knowing it.

People overvalue their knowledge and underestimate the probability of their being wrong.

be sophisticated you need to accept that you are not so.

The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know.

Religion isn't so much about telling man that there is one God as about preventing man from thinking that he is God.

This, perhaps is true self-confidence: the ability to look at the world without the need to find signs that stroke one's ego.

We laugh at others and we don't realize that someone will be just as justified in laughing at us on some not too remote day

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant, the opposite.

ignoramus et ignorabimus—we are ignorant and will remain so. Somehow

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small. If you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand. Nothing. And when you take risks, insults by half-men, small men, those who don't risk anything, are similar to barks by non-human animals. You can't feel insulted by a dog.

True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing.

I noticed that very intelligent and informed persons were at no advantage over cabdrivers in their predictions, but there was a crucial difference. Cabdrivers did not believe that they understood as much as learned people - really, they were not the experts and they knew it. Nobody knew anything, but elite thinkers thought that they knew more than the rest because they were elite thinkers, and if you're a member of the elite, you automatically know more than the nonelite.

There are so many things we can do if we focus on antiknowledge, or what we do not know.

Cabdrivers did not believe that they understood as much as learned people—really, they were not the experts and they knew it. Nobody knew anything, but elite thinkers thought that they knew more than the rest because they were elite thinkers, and if you're a member of the elite, you automatically know more than the nonelite.

Most of what they call humility is successfully disguised arrogance.

We need tricks to get us there but before that we need to accept the fact that we are mere animals in need of lower forms of tricks, not lectures.

I noticed that very intelligent and informed persons were at no advantage over cabdrivers in their predictions, but there was a crucial difference. Cabdrivers did not believe that they understood as much as learned people—really, they were not the experts and they knew it. Nobody knew anything, but elite thinkers thought that they knew more than the rest because they were elite thinkers, and if you're a member of the elite, you automatically know more than the nonelite.

cocksure prophet. Where I beg to differ with the great