Humility Quotes

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then...

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of r...

The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by Go...

Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thin...

Relativism poses as humble by saying: “We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if there...

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of r...

The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by Go...

Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thin...

Relativism poses as humble by saying: “We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if there...

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of r...

Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thin...

The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by Go...

Relativism poses as humble by saying: “We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if there...

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of r...

The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by Go...

Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thin...

Relativism poses as humble by saying: “We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if there...

I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his...

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or...

The assumption that we are infallible can we justify the suppression of opinions we think false. Age...

Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity an...

We should get into the way of appearing lively in religion, more by being lively in the service of G...

A poor man is not disposed to quick and high resentment when he is among the rich: he is apt to yiel...

A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the sa...

But that is the nature of true grace and spiritual light, that it opens to a person's view the infin...

I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had knownhow to follow with unfaltering footsteps, t...

There too he had been treated with revolting injustice. His struggles, his privations,his hard work ...

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.

Describing the relationship between the biblical witnesses and the theologians who come after, the a...

I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all - the highest. It ...

For me, walking in a hard Dakota wind can be like staring at the ocean: humbled before its immensity...

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal n...

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how...

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is fru...

You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not ...

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most ...

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest mig...

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, b...

That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept t...

There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility

The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.

Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility...

In the Christic tradition, this is the meaning of  'becoming as a little child.'  Little children do...

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation o...

Not ordinarily do men achieve this balance of opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, an...

We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet ...

You don’t want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here ...

The trait [Morey] looked for was awareness that they were seeking answers to questions with no certa...

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

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's ...

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way...

There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I'm so angry and bit...

Other priests, he knew, found an intense pleasure in the raw, salty dialect of peasant conversation....

The man who does good in doubt must have so much more merit than one who does it in the bright certa...

We could never agree about Boogie and I didn't share Miriam's reverence for professors. In fact, jus...

Humility is truth, therefore in all sincerity we must be able to look up and say, "I can do all thin...

These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind...

It is our emptiness and lowliness that God needs and not our plenitude. These are a few of the ways ...

I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earn...

Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail...

There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and ...

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is asacrament that should be tak...

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the insid...

And yet now and then he let himself steal a glance at her. Lovely dark colors of her skin, hair, and...

No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.

The author's Socrates admonishes paramount awareness human limitations. If we do good to those we ev...

The theology of littleness is a basic category of Christianity. After all, the tenor of our faith is...

We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us.

Loving ourselves so much, we are naturally led to enlarge our own merits, to play down our transgres...

When I am paid a compliment, I must compare myself with the little donkey that carried Christ on Pal...

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us th...

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of ...

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

Only secure people can serve. Insecure people are always worrying about how they appear to others. T...

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is alw...

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ign...

Father Ratti had often explained, in Religious Knowledge class, that true humility did not mean a se...

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as...

With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in a...

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of ...

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?

When you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you'd better learn. And in the meantime, y...

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may ...

Life's a short trip. You'll find out.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions becau...

In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection thi...