A With No Humility Quotes

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

I'm not offended until you think I'm offended.

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours.

Every moment you are open, as a humble student, you are surrounded with infinite possibilities of choice.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that we have victory.

Humility and full consciousness are inseparable.

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

The applause of the audience is short-lived. When calls resound for an encore, we are called to direct our attention to our Master.

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

To learn true humility, we need more than a redefinition of greatness; we need even more than Jesus' personal example of humble service. What we need is His death.

The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility.

True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.

That which we look on with unselfish love And true humility is surely ours, Even as a lake looks at the stars above And makes within itself a heaven of stars.

There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.

I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.

I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

It takes simplicity and humility to worship God acceptably.

Your brilliance comes from your spirit. To deny it is arrogance. To accept it is humility.

For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.

Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.

A book tour is, first and foremost, an exercise in humility.

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility.

Humility is the daughter of truth.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

As we strive to teach others we must have the humility to acknowledge that we too still have much to learn.

Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it.

E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within.

I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.