Quotes About Humility

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.

A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.

A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.

It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.

Man plans. God laughs.

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

Make not thyself the judge of any man.

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.

No man will be present in those mysteries, yet all men will kneel, no man will be potent, important, yet all men will feel what it is to be a woman.

Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.

A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.

Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.

I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.

If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame.

If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.

The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me.