Quotes About Humility

Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a person. Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.

the wise know nothing at all well maybe one song

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it." Those words stayed with me.

The other lawyer looked at him and said, "Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." In short, accept that your position was faulty, not your ego. This doesn't mean you don't argue with passion and intensity.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." In short, accept that your position was faulty, not your ego.

need you. I've often heard blowhard leaders boast, "My outfit is so good, it could function well without me." Hmm, then why do they need you?

I've often heard blowhard leaders boast, "My outfit is so good, it could function well without me." Hmm, then why do they need you?

The larger the universe gets, it seems, the smaller and less important we humans appear. As one novelist put it, the history of astronomy is the history of increasing humiliation.

Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He went where He was supposed to go. He stayed where He was needed. He took little or nothing along, a pair of sandals, a bit of a shirt, a few odds and ends to stave off the loneliness. He never rejected the world. If He had rejected it, He would have been rejecting mystery. And if He rejected mystery, He would have been rejecting faith.

A fool is he who begs of thee the answers to all creation.

I am but a single coin in a chest of billions.

Meet not my creator will I for I am but a mere dot among dots within a dot on a black canvas of dots.

Never mistake my surety for arrogance.

Of our world of war, we are ignorant of our insignificance in the universes.

The biggest mistake we humans make is thinking we rule it all, when in fact, we rule nothing.

The greatest mistake we humans make is thinking we know all there is to know. The truth is; we know nothing and we shall continue to know nothing until the end of our existence.

The greatest mistake we humans make is thinking we know all there is to know. The truth is; we know nothing.

To unlock the greatest mysteries we must accept that we are nothing and all that we do know is relative to the size of The Earth in the universes.

We seem to have forgotten the most important of all lessons most prominently propounded over two thousand years ago and so I will be the one to remind all; we know nothing and we shall be fulfilled in this for by this we understand that there is always something to know which provides us with a knowledge-seeking purpose.