humility Quotes

“Nothing is more deceitful . . . than the appearance of humility.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

topic:appearance humility

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:humility pride

“He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

topic:humility pride simplicity

“The higher we are placed, the more humbly should we walk.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:death humility

“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

topic:self humility value

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

topic:wisdom stupidity foolishness humility vanity

“Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:speech humility

“He was a simple man who didn’t feel inferior about his lack of education and, even more amazing, showed no superiority because he had succeeded despite that lack.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

topic:education success humility

“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

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