Humility Quotes

"What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the Earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which always tend to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife " "He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled" "There is no end to the good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit." "I don't consider myself a diva" "If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought." "To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me." "The most important thing is to be aware of what you don’t know" "You know what, it's not your life, it's life. Life is bigger than you, if you can imagine that" "The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind" "Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go, ‘Uh, I'm kind of an a——." "The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else." "I have three precious things, which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men." "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." "Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t" "True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us" "Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense." "Be humble or get humbled" "I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician." "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." "The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life. "