Quotes About Humility

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.

I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior.

Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.

I am only human, although I regret it.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity.

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

Don't ask God to change the laws of nature for you.

Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.

ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

I'm not a show-off by nature.

I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.

A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.