Quotes About Humility

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

...the infallible man does not exist.

If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

God exalts the man who humbles himself.

The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best.

Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.

The Torah itself becomes coarse in the mouth of a man of pride.

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.

Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior...

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.

The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.