Quotes About Humility

There you have Socrates' wisdom; [b] he himself isn't willing to teach, but he goes around learning from others and isn't even grateful to them.

Modesty is becoming in youth.

So I left him, saying to myself, as I went away: Well, although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is,—for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.

I am wiser than that fellow, anyhow. Because neither of us, I dare say, knows anything of great value; but he thinks he knows a thing when he doesn't; whereas I neither know it in fact, nor think that I do. At any rate, it appears that I am wiser than he in just this one small respect: if I do not know something, I do not think that I do.

Although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is,--for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know. (Socrates)

Ich weiß, dass ich nicht weiß".

Herein is the evil of ignorance , that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself : he has no desire for that of which he feels no want .

For knowing their own inferiority, I suspect that they are too glad of equality.

quien durante tanto tiempo se ha ocupado de estos asuntos pueda exponerlas opiniones de los demás, pero no las suyas. -¿Pues qué? -dije yo-. ¿Te parece bien que hable uno de las cosas que no sabe como si las supiese?

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

El más honrado y el más sencillo no es reprimir a los demás, sino prepararse para ser lo mejor posible.

And surely it is the most blameworthy [b]ignorance to believe that one knows what one does not know.

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

I know that I know nothing

el más sabio entre vosotros es aquel que reconoce, como Sócrates, que su sabiduría no es nada.»

only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it

While I, just as I do not know, do not even suppose that I do. I am likely to be a little bit wiser than he in this very thing: that whatever I do not know, I do not even suppose I know.

virtuoso, aunque se jacte de ello, le reprenderé por desestimar lo más valioso y sobrestimar lo que tiene menos valor.

Well, although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is,— for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.

So I appear to be wiser, at least than him, in just this one small respect: that when I don't know things, I don't think that I do either.

I will tell just one more story... and I will tell it with the humility and restraint of him who knows from the start that his theme is desperate, his means feeble, and the trade of clothing facts in words is bound by its very nature to fail.

He spoke grudgingly about his exploits. He did not belong to that species of persons who do things in order to talk about them (like me).

Humility is always the hardest lesson for a Prince Warrior to learn

Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.