Quotes About Humility

Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

When you're truly connecting with wisdom, the more you learn, the more you realize the less you know.

In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.

Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?

The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be hard on them.

Never break a Muslim's heart by refusing what he offers you, when you know that anything that comes to you through him is in reality from Allah, and he is only His powerless and compelled means.

Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.

Wisdom is knowing how little we know.

Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.

If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else." "I know. An overwhelming passion for it." "No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

If you are aware of your humility, then you are arrogant.

When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.

True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.