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Humility Quotes

Humility Definition  
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Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.
John Nelson Darby

One thing that golf teaches you is humility.
Robert Wagner

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Richard Dawkins

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.
Marvin Olasky

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
Richard J. Daley

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
Thomas Merton

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
Thomas Fuller

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
Adam Clarke

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Simone Weil

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
George Santayana

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
William Penn

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
Irving Babbitt

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.
Saadi

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
Saadi

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John Ruskin

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
Arthur Miller

The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
Abu Bakr

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