Quotes About Humility

It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

If you learn how to make fun of yourself, your ego will go down.

Know the one who wants nothing to be the wealthiest.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.

I only know that I know nothing

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.

Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.