Quotes About Humility

I'm not one to despise other people for their sins. I haven't found one yet, that I didn't say to myself, I've done worse than this.

You shouldn't be proud of being good at something, if you were born with it. That would be as dumb as being proud of having two legs, or speaking a language, or pooping.

calling a man a god did not elevate the man, it only diminished the idea of godhood.

And why does Earth fail to learn its lesson?" Lem said. "Why do we persist in this divided idiocy? Because the world is full of prideful bastards, that's why. Everyone believes they're smarter than everyone else, more capable than everyone else, more justified than everyone else. Humility went extinct a long time ago.

I'm only a god, Vanya, not an expert.

I wonder what it would be like to love and trust a man so much that I'd be willing to abase myself as Kate did. Is there something in women that makes us long to be humbled? Or is it something in human beings, that when we are overmastered, we rejoice in our subjection?

Is there something in women that makes us long to be humbled? Or is it something in human beings, that when we are overmastered, we rejoice in our subjection? That would explain a lot of history.

You're very smart. Smarter than I am, I hope. Though of course I have such incredible vanity that I can't really believe that anyone is actually smarter than I am. Which means that I'm all the more in need of good advice, since I can't actually conceive of needing any.

You shouldn't be proud of being good at something, if you were born with it. That would be as dumb as being proud of having two legs, or speaking a language, or pooping.

Cuando tienes la sabiduría que otra persona sabe que necesita, ofrécela libremente. Pero cuando la otra persona no sepa todavía que necesita tu sabiduría, guárdatela para ti. La comida sólo parece atractiva a un hombre hambriento.

I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

I'm too old to know everything

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

Watson-dijo-, si en alguna ocasión le parece que peco en exceso de confianza en mis facultades o que le presto menos atención de la que merece un caso, le ruego que me susurre al oído la palabra <>. Le quedaré infinitamente agradecido.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.