Quotes About Humility

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.

There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Your wisdom should be without pride.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might.

The most talented people are always the nicest.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

I say to the young blokes, when you get asked for an autograph, don't knock it back because there'll be a time where no one will ask you.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.

Respect those elder to you in years, in knowledge and spiritual attainment and act with love and compassion with those who are younger or less fortunate than you.

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

I cannot think of the results of your labors without shame at the little we do.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

When a king begins to act like a king, it is not long before someone else is king! Serving is a way we can place value on one another. A wise man is a server.

The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.

There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.