2,389 Quotes About Humility

You can’t accept correction when you are not humble to listen.

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

Make way for the sweetest humiliation when you underestimate their intelligence while overestimating your knowledge.

There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.

[Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people.

I don't know much fancy words. I think simple, I speak simple, I live simple.

When you lose touch with soil and society, you lose touch with life.

The more distant you get from the soil, the more distant you get from life.

I wear a ten dollar shirt with twenty dollar jeans, shoes and watch, because when you pay less attention to appearance, you can pay more attention to character.