Quotes About Humility

We start out knowing all the answers, and in the end we realize how little we know. Just the important things. And by that time… no one listens anymore. Hang

The more I read, the more I learn, the more I discover that I know nothing.

He said, "A new commandment I give you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you." And how had he loved them? Not by feeling emotional! But He washed their feet anyway, because love does not do what it feels, it does what is needed.

To the proud heart and ambitious spirit this may seem a poor, unproductive attitude—but to those of us who have entered the school of Christ and have begun to learn of him who was meek and lowly in heart—when we have drunk, in any measure, into the spirit of Him who made Himself of no reputation, we then see things quite differently.

There is one thing Margaret Thatcher said that I agree with: if you have to tell people you're important, you're not.

It was only now that she understood, for the first time, that despite her title, her uniform, and the two stars on her shoulder, she was as helpless as any native herder or farmer or sailor.

There is something definitively vile about the man who only admits equals, who does not tirelessly seek out his betters.

Zichzelf veroordelen is niet minder pretentieus dan zichzelf vergeven.

Only those who never moved a finger to acquire them should talk about money and power.

Making us feel intelligent is how nature notifies us that we are saying something stupid.

Let us not expect the rebirth of civilization as long as man has not again learnt to feel humiliated when he devotes himself to economic tasks.

He who accepts the rank which nature assigns him does not turn into the mere absence of what he is not. Even the most modest thing has, in its proper place, immeasurable worth.

Spirituality dawns when the intellect is silenced by loving devotion and reverential humility. KIRPAL SINGH

Um idiota sempre encontra um idiota ainda maior para admirá-lo.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

If we would please in society, we must be prepared to be taught many things we know already by people who do not know them.

When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that you know and they don't.

Quand on veut plaire dans le monde, il faut se résoudre à se laisser apprendre beaucoup de choses qu'on sait par des gens qui les ignorent.

Learn to be gracious whether you win or lose.

Einstein, stop telling God what to do!

Oh, what idiots we all have been. This is just as it must be.