2,389 Quotes About Humility

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

the rent here may be low but i believe we have it on very hard terms --sense & sensibility

The opinion of humble people is not heard, but that’s just my humble opinion.

Self-knowledge is not clarity or transparency or knowing how everything works, self-knowledge is a fiercely attentive form of humility and thankfulness, a sense of the privilege of a particular form of participation, coming to know the way we hold the conversation of life and perhaps, above all, the miracle that there is a particular something rather than an abstracted nothing and we are a very particular part of that particular something.

Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.

The Word of God bares weight on all ages always.

We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory.

Regular, modest failures are actually essential to many forms of resilience.

Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection.