Quotes About Humility

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.

most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.

The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.

Knowledge cannot be attained except through humility.

If you will not reprove yourself,' Saadi says, 'you will not welcome reproof from another.

It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

Saying of the Prophet Humility Humility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.

Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement.

Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap.

Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.

Humility has to precede instruction.

Bueno. Muéstrame a una persona que cree que sabe lo que es "bueno" y probablemente seré capaz de mostrarte a una persona horrorosa. Muéstrame a una persona que realmente sabe lo que es "bueno" y te mostraré que casi nunca usa la palabra.

A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of Khorasan

La verdadera generosidad es anónima hasta tal punto que un hombre debería estar incluso preparado para ser considerado tacaño antes que tener que explicar sus acciones a otros.

Si eres "humilde", puede ayudarte en tu vida ordinaria. Si no lo eres, no irás a ningún lado respecto a las cosas superiores.

Sentirse importante es un vicio, no una virtud, no importa lo escondido que esté como participación en algo noble.

La clase de hombre que, tirando una piedra al suelo, fallaría.