Quotes About Humility

Science has repeatedly revealed to us that we are not unique or special — except, guess what. We are.

Sono saggio soprattutto riguardo alle cose che non so

When one considers how necessary the honeybee is to life on earth, it puts the arrogant pretentions of mankind into a proper context.

There is an old saying, "It is amazing what you can achieve if you are not wedded to who gets the credit." The

be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards. There is no "how" of life, one just does it.... It seems, however, to be terribly difficult for you not to be complicated and to do what is simple and closest to hand.... So climb down from the mountain of your humility and follow your nose. That is your way. 1

it seemed to me that the high mountains, the rivers, lakes, trees, flowers, and animals far better exemplified the essence of God than [people] with their ridiculous clothes, their meanness, vanity, mendacity, and abhorrent egotism—all qualities with which I was only too familiar from myself, that is, from personality No. 1, the schoolboy of 1890.

I still like boiled potatoes with the skins on," he said, "and I do not want a man standing in back of my chair, laughing up his sleeve at me while I am taking the potatoes' jackets off." Of pleasure and material things he was wary. "I have never known what to do with money after my expenses were paid. I can't squander it on myself without hurting myself," he said, "and nobody wants to do that.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

Celibacy,fasting, penance, mortification, self-denial, humility, silence, solitude and the whole train of monkish virtues...Stupify the understanding and harden the heart, obscure the fancy and sour the temper...A gloomy hair-brained enthusiast, after his death, may have a place in the calendar, but will scarcely ever be admitted, when alive, into intimacy and society, except by those who are as delerious and dismal as himself.

It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.

Il est difficile de parler de soi longtemps sans vanité.

For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, it is certain it must lie very deep and abstruse: and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with the utmost pains, must certainly be esteemed sufficiently vain and presumptuous.

It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity. - My Own Life

When anyone tells you they have all the answers it is time to race for the exits.

Major Message Bad attitudes and demands that the Lord give us what we want are unwise. The people had a bad and rebellious attitude. Rather than humbly requesting some meat to go with the manna, if it had been in harmony with the Lord's will, they demanded meat and complained loudly to Moses, as if he were the Lord. Their prideful and strident approach is answered by the Lord with a severe lesson.

what the Lord says next, we understand that the perils and problems that these men had experienced during the previous day were allowed in order to humble them and help them learn to work together in harmony. In context, the last

Honest people recognize the limitations of their own knowledge. God's perfection does not extend to God's creatures.

making sense of everything is not an obligation or even a possibility. So much of what goes on in the world, so much of what goes on even inside ourselves, is beyond our grasp. Acceptance of mystery is an act not of resignation but humility.

Teach your tongue to say 'I don't know.

I like stupid questions," Rimmer said. "They allow one to feel intelligent for once.

But most important of all, he kicked off in the humble tone he had been taught in his management courses:

Yra tokia istorija apie žmog?, kuris buvo blogai aptarnautas ir pasak? pardav?jui, kas klientas tur?t? b?ti karalius. Klerkas n? nemirktel?j?s atsak?: Monsieur, le roi est mort ("Pone, karalius mir?s").

I have undertaken this project precisely because I am unqualified to do so.