Quotes About Humility

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

Onorate il passato e affrettate il futuro; ma vivete nel presente coll'umiltà e coll'attività di chi sente la propria impotenza e insieme il bisogno di trovare la virtù.

Let everyone beware lest he presume to take it upon himself to criticize and condemn other men's faults without his having been truly touched within by the Holy Spirit in his work. Otherwise he may very easily err in his judgments. Beware therefore. Judge yourself as seems right to you between yourself and your God, and let other men alone.

Forgive me, Lord, for being afraid of people who are different than me. Help me find the courage to do what the good Samaritan did that day on the roadside. Give me grace and compassion to overcome my narrow-mindedness and bigotry. Help me drive out any feelings of superiority. Let me see everyone as an equal and a worthy brother and sister—and act accordingly.

I'm only Superman, I'm not God.

Everyone is wise until he speaks.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

Equality as it is currently pursued is incompatible with true liberty; for liberty involves an inner working with reference to standards, the right subordination, in other words, of man's ordinary will to a higher will. There is an inevitable clash, in short, between equality and humility.

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

People get too big to do the little things and then wonder why they don't have the big results.

There is as much to be learned from a man with little, as there is from a man with much.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

Lo que sabemos es una gota de agua; lo que ignoramos es un océano.

What we know is a drop. What we don't know is an ocean.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

What we know is a drop. What we don't know is the ocean.

The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

How shall polluted mortals dare To sing Thy glory or Thy grace Beneath Thy feet we lie afar And see but shadows of Thy face.

You should therefore contrive and practice some proper methods to acquaint yourself with your own ignorance, and to impress your mind with a deep and painful sense of the low and imperfect degrees of your present knowledge, that you may be incited with labor and activity to pursue after greater measures.

We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us.

Nothing is more comforting than the weaknesses of persons obviously superior to oneself.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

Don't kill!... The fly is asking you To save his life By rubbing his hands together