Humility

• Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights. — Thoreau

• We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. —Rabindranath Tagore

• Without humility, there is no real learning. Without learning, there is no real living. —Sage of Mt. Si

• We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything. — Thomas Edison

• Sixty years ago, I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. — Will Durant

• I know not what the world will think of my labors, but to myself it seems that I have been but as a child playing on the seashore; now finding some precious pebble or more beautiful shell than my companions, while the unbounded ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me. — Issac Newton

• Conceit is God’s gift to little men. — Bruce Barton

• Egotism is nature’s compensation for mediocrity. — L. A. Safian

• A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes fairly well. — La Bruyere

• I don’t think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn’t be. — John Betjeman

• If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. — Descartes

• That painter who has no doubts will achieve little. — Leonardo Da Vince

• Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. —Proverbs 16

• We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. — Rollo May