Quotes About Humility

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.

Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

Small things make base men proud.

I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.

I'm hardly the sexiest man in the world. I'm a bit of a geek.

A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.

The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.

God laughs at men's plans.

Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.

The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.

I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatisit.

There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.

Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless