2,389 Quotes About Humility

A single person cannot know even a billionth of what is known, which is not even a trillionth of what there is to know.

How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

The more educated someone is, the less likely it usually is for them to say that they do not know, when they do not know.

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner, fix him with a wild, glitt’ring eye and say, “Do you know that in the head of the caterpillar of the ordinary goat moth there are two hundred twenty-eight separate muscles?” The poor wretch flees. I am not making chatter; I mean to change his life.

Emerald leaves crossed our pathswith veracity marked in golden drafts,somewhere deep amid the pending vapoursof humility and dance,did we dance across the skies?

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

One thing the Bible makes perfectly clear is that God absolutely hates pride and loves humility.

True humility doesn't kill our dreams; it provides a guardrail for them.

Rather than swallowing our pride and simply asking what we do not know, we choose to fill in the blanks ourselves and later become humbled. Wisdom was often, in its youth, proven foolish, and ones humiliated were meant to become wise.