humility Quotes

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

topic:humility satisfaction

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.”

― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

topic:knowledge humility

“But Nature, it seems, was at the bottom of the affair, and she gains her ends with dogs as well as with men, making us do as she likes, shoving and pulling us along her ways, however rough, all but killing us at times in getting her lessons...”

― John Muir, Stickeen

topic:nature humility

“The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”

― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

topic:knowledge humility

“Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

topic:happiness humility

“All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:virtue humility

“To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:strength humility

“All we can know is that we know nothing.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

topic:knowledge humility

“Those truths which we know are very few in comparison with those which we do not know.”

― Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany

topic:truth knowledge humility

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