Humility
417 quotes: 31 by Keith Craft, 386 from other voices.
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- This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
- Those who can bend need not be taught how to stand tall.Sanu SharmaCommonly attributed
- Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.
- To accept good advice is but to increase one’s own ability.
- To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.
- To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
- To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance.
- To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.
- To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.
- To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.
- To excel others is a proof of talent; but to know when to conceal that superiority is a greater proof of prudence.
- To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.
- To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others.
- To know that you do not know is the best.To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
- To lead the people, walk behind them.
- To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
- To own a Fault is but to say, "I'm Wiser Now than Yesterday.
- To reject wisdom because the person who communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away a pine-apple, and assign for a reason the roughness of its coat?
- Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.
- True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
- Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people … or find a different room..
- Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.
- Vertue is not secure against Envy. Men will Lessen what they won't Imitate.
- We accuse our neighbours for minor things, and excuse ourselves for major ones.
- We all can't be heroes, for someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
- We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
- We are all envious naturally: but, by checking envy, we get the better of it.
- We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.
- We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
- We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.
- We can prostrate ourselves in the dust when we have committed a fault, but it is not best to remain there.
- We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
- We favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt
- We go and fancy that everybody is thinking of us. But he is not; he is like us--he is thinking of himself.
- We have to keep our minds and hearts open, and never be ashamed to learn, with the assistance of those who are wiser and more experienced than ourselves.
- We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know.
- Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman.Lord ChesterfieldCommonly attributed
- What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
- When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done; he is dead; dead in the trespasses and sins of blear-eyed vanity.
- When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.