Humility
417 quotes: 31 by Keith Craft, 386 from other voices.
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- The man who has never made a mistake has no need of an eraser; just so the man who has never done anything wrong has no need of a Redeemer.
- The mistake is not being wrong. The mistakes is staying wrong.
- The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
- The more of the solid there is in a man, the less does he act the balloon.
- The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
- The most important thing is knowing where you are competent and where you aren’t. The human mind tries to make you believe you are smarter than you are. Rub your nose in your mistakes.
- The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals, and have no hope of rising in their own esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
- The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
- The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.
- The only way to get a big place is to show that you are not ashamed to fill a little one.
- The person seeking to learn wins what the person seeking to impress loses.
- The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
- The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
- The smartest people I know don’t think they’re smart, which must be why they keep getting smarter.
- The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
- The sure way to be cheated is to fancy ourselves more cunning than others.
- The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.
- The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.
- The true way to be humble is not to stoop till you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that shall show you what the real smallness of your greatest greatness is.
- The truest self-respect is not to think of self.
- The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
- The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.Mahatma GandhiSourced
- The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
- The world is your teacher. When you are always looking to learn, you will stop underestimating others. Humility will dawn in your life.
- The worst decision most adults make is to stop asking questions — trading their curiosity for the appearance of competence.
- The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.
- There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be thought so.
- There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance.
- There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
- There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question, than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.
- There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
- There is nothing little to the truly great in spirit.
- There is nothing more unreasonable than to estimate our worth by the opinion of others. Today they laud us to the skies, to-morrow they will cover us with ignominy.
- There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
- There is only one way to be humble: do not think about yourself, but about how you can serve God and others.
- There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.
- They that know God will be humble; they that know themselves cannot be proud.
- They that will not be counselled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
- They that will not be counselled cannot be helped.
- Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.