Top 67 Humility Learning Quotes
#1. Why has he taken this job? ... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know of honour and dishonour anyway? For himself then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.
J.M. Coetzee
#2. Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.
Criss Jami
#3. Learning from each mistake requires self-awareness and humility, but it can be one of the biggest keys to reaching your full potential.
Amy Morin
#4. As entrepreneurs, we must continue to ask ourselves 'What's next?' It takes humility to realize that we don't know everything, not to rest on our laurels and know that we must keep learning and observing.
Cher Wang
#5. If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk starts out as painful, the experience may be well worth it.
Criss Jami
#6. If you go in thinking that you're smarter than everyone else, you want in a learning very much. If you go in thinking, "I'd sure like to understand this better," you end up doing precisely that.
Alex Gibney
#7. In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.
Patti Smith
#8. The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something
Richard Saul Wurman
#9. One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.
Criss Jami
#10. In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion - ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in.
William Kittredge
#12. Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
Idries Shah
#13. Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!
E.A. Bucchianeri
#14. I'll always be a student, because I think of music as never ending.
Lenny Breau
#15. We all need to humble ourselves from time to time and expose ourselves to new perspectives and ideas, even those of the non-experts, or else our growth potential gets weighed down with the ignorance of ego and habit.
A.J. Darkholme
#16. With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.
Criss Jami
#17. Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
Criss Jami
#18. It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.
Idries Shah
#19. We can learn personal humility from episodes that generate shame and guilt. After retiring from worldly affairs and drawing useful lessons from personal disgrace, we must resume living an expedient life devoted to appreciating truth, beauty, and love.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#20. It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.
Criss Jami
#21. Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers', but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.
James Fenimore Cooper
#22. Humility adds lessons to our pain and suffering, turning the seemingly senseless into meaning.
Bryant McGill
#24. Discipline and diligence are up there on the list, but one of the most important qualities of many really successful people is humility. If you have a degree of humility about you, you have the ability to take advice, to be coachable, teachable. A humble person never stops learning.
Todd Blackledge
#25. We have to watch the world, and watch ourselves, with the humility of those who know, in the very depths of their being, that learning to become human is a process that never ends.
Tariq Ramadan
#26. You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.
Rajneesh
#27. Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humility - a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.
Maria Shriver
#28. This book is dedicated to all the students I've known over the years who've taught me humility and what it means to really be a kid.
Dr. Kid Brain
#30. Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
Johannes Tauler
#31. Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of.
Criss Jami
#32. Learning
To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
Czeslaw Milosz
#34. It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.
Jeremy Taylor
#35. We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to our own that we can truly excel towards our most ambitious goals and reach our fullest potential.
A.J. Darkholme
#36. We don't really know anything. Those who accept this are more likely to learn something.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#37. Today I speak the truth as I know it to be, tomorrow I may know better.
T Jay Taylor
#38. I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.
Ted Allen
#39. Put off the fire of pride and save your life from burning with flames of failure. Pride is the reason why many dreams only survive as ashes today. Learn the lesson; hung on to humility!
Israelmore Ayivor
#40. It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#41. Human mortality linked to the human ability consciously to choose how to act by exhibiting free will, humility, hard work, kindness, and compassion provide exemplary opportunities to learn and develop self-discipline.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#42. ...life is a continual process of learning, working hard, rising up, and then being humbled. Sliding over, then sliding over again. And again.
Tim Hiller
#43. Now, there are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: you can embrace it with humility and an open mind, or you can ridicule it mercilessly.
Judith Stone
#44. The whole bloated sensation of success is wiped clean when among family. There is no pressure of being looked upon as 'the brilliant one' but rather the comforts of always being the pupil.
Criss Jami
#45. If you wish to draw profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and never with the design of gaining a reputation for learning.
Thomas A Kempis
#46. The country inspector's face had shown his intense amazement at the rapid and masterful progress of Holmes' investigation. At first he had shown some disposition to assert his own position, but now he was overcome with admiration, and ready to follow without question wherever Holmes lead.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#47. When you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you'd better learn. And in the meantime, you should keep quiet, or at least speak only when what you say will advance the learning process.
Roberto Bolano
#48. 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?
Criss Jami
#49. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
Criss Jami
#50. I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy.
Will Durant
#51. Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning, humility, and virtue;
that her ornaments were such as might be purchased without money, and would render any woman's life both glorious and happy.
Laurence Sterne
#52. Humility: The most quietly profound professor in the university of Christian living.
Evinda Lepins
#53. Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.
David D. Burns
#54. He is not, he hopes, a sentimentalist. He tries not to sentimentalize the animals he kills, or to sentimentalize Bev Shaw. He avoids saying to her 'I don't know how you do it,' in order not to have to hear her say in return, 'Someone has to do it.
J.M. Coetzee
#55. A Board can be harmonized through leadership humility, insightful business understanding, trustful culture, and learning agility.
Pearl Zhu
#57. Humility is the doorway 2 truth & clarity of objectives ... it's the doorway 2 learning.
Wynton Marsalis
#58. One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.
Robert Breault
#60. Only those who are grounded can truly learn;
one has to walk before one can fly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#61. Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.
Yogi Berra
#62. A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.
Thomas A Kempis
#63. The path to wisdom is paved with humility.
Tim Fargo
#64. Humility is the first step towards learning. You can't learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you to learn.
Robert Kiyosaki
#65. Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#66. To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.
Randy Alcorn
#67. Learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
Philip Yancey
