Humility Quotes - Page 3

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!
(Institutio III.2.3)

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.

I do not begin to think that I could possibly understand its inner-workings and the deepest truths of the cosmos with the 28 years that I have lived in Central New Jersey of the United States of America.

Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.

He tried juggling with raw eggs – but only once.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.

I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases.

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement.

Saying of the Prophet
Humility
Humility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.

The problem with thinking that you are the absolute best, is that it leaves no room for you to become any better and while you live life thinking that you're the best, truth is a lot of people around you are already better and becoming even more better.

Why is it that self-confidence is so often cocky and self-assured so often selfish? Neither has to be true. Having confidence doesn’t require being superior over another and being self-assured doesn’t require taking advantage of another.

Entrepreneur, stay hungry, stay humble & stay hopeful.

It is a sad thing to become so blinded and deafened by pride that you are no longer concerned about whether or not God is pleased with your actions.

Humility, kindness, integrity, and compassion are the fragrances that I wear, and I strongly recommend that you try them.

Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.

No person is great in isolation. It takes many hands to shape a life. Denial would mean conceit, and conceit is not the same as self-respect.

I keep a vivid memory of failure in my back pocket, so no matter how much I accomplish I stay grounded.