Quotes About Humility

The only condition for such brand of more sophisticated rationalism: to believe and act as if one does not have the full story—to be sophisticated you need to accept that you are not so.

Mother Nature knows more than he will ever know, not the other way around.

People can only be social friends if they don't try to upstage or outsmart one another.

because we take what we know a little too seriously.

The story of the wheel itself is even more humbling than that of the suitcase:

This, perhaps, is true self-confidence: the ability to look at the world without the need to find signs that stroke one's ego.fn3

So we are a little better than animals, after all—but perhaps not by much.

We certainly know a lot, but we have a built-in tendency to think that we know a little bit more than we actually do

To put it again in other words: it is rather a good thing to lose arguments.

we are simply not wise enough to be trusted with knowledge.

Though I keep trying to convince her of my internal humility and insecurity concealed under a confident exterior;

They found it difficult to accept that their grasp was a little short. But

We certainly know a lot, but we have a built-in tendency to think that we know a little bit more than we actually do, enough of that little bit to occasionally get into serious trouble.

The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know. Lack of knowledge and delusion about the quality of your knowledge come together—the same process that makes you know less also makes you satisfied with your knowledge.

Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Expert problems (in which the expert knows a lot but less than he thinks he does) often bring fragilities, and acceptance of ignorance the reverse.

Conversely, when you think you know more than you do, you are fragile (to error).

for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.

Benevolence is the twin of pride.

when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offences, but never resentful of great ones.

The truth is, however, that the laboring oar was with our unpolished companions; it being far easier to condescend than to accept of condescension

When men seek only to be trampled upon, it were a pity to deny them a favor so easily granted - and so well deserved!

Robinson's fierce quest for spiritual purity had been tempered by the realization that little was to be gained by arrogance and anger.