Humility Quotes

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. (Oscar Levant)
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow. View quote
Jack Kerouac
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility. View quote
Arthur Miller
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Humility is attentive patience. View quote
Simone Weil
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions. View quote
Edward Hopper
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. View quote
George Santayana
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot. View quote
Thomas Moore
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. (Rabindranath Tagore)
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human. View quote
Andre Comte-Sponville
One thing that golf teaches you is humility. View quote
Robert Wagner
It becomes us, in humility, to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored. View quote
James K. Polk
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks. View quote
Umberto Eco
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. View quote
Blaise Pascal
If I only had a little humility I would be perfect. View quote
Ted Turner
You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. View quote
Thomas Merton
It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws. (Bertrand Russell)
With all humility, I think, 'Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.' Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. View quote
Jane Austen
It ain't the heat, it's the humility. View quote
Yogi Berra
Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others. View quote
Rick Warren