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Quotes About Humility

No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.
~ James Cook
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
~ Sophocles
The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
~ Gerald Brenan
The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.
~ Socrates
True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.
~ Gore Vidal
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.
~ Benjamin Franklin
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.
~ Josh Billings
Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
~ Socrates
Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.
~ Plutarch
Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.
~ Saadi
Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
~ Lord Chesterfield
The person I like most is the one who points out my defects
~ Umar
True wisdom is knowing what you don't know
~ Confucius
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
~ Winston Churchill
A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
~ Lao Tzu
Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don't wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belongs to the wisdom!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
~ Criss Jami
Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.
~ Aesop
Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom.
~ Victor Villasenor
Wisdom is knowing when you don't know
~ Socrates
I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.
~ C.P. Snow, The Masters