2,389 Quotes About Humility

Epistemic Humility; The recognition that we basically don’t know jack s**t about life.

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

The most educated person in the world now has to admit—I shall not say confess—that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.

I teach to learn what I need to know; only a good student like me would make me a good teacher.

I would rather lose my intellect than my humility.

It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.

When Mary asserts explicitly that God is on the side of the poor, we can understand it within the tension of what it means to be blessed as the poor in spirit. Rather than elevating poverty to a form of righteousness, Jesus is instead calling for a revolution of imagination around the nature of what we consider true blessing. Jesus is here declaring that the humble and repentant heart is the fertile soil of his kingdom.

Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning.

A person’s spiritual power originates from using knowledge, compassion, charity, and personal humility to break away from custom and creed.