Top 100 Wisdom Humility Quotes
#1. Proverbs 15:33 33 Fear of the LORD teaches wisdom; humility precedes honor.
Anonymous
#2. What should you, O man, do, you who seek your own glory whenever you do anything good, while when you do something bad, you figure out ways to blame God.
Augustine Of Hippo
#3. The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something
Richard Saul Wurman
#4. Shred the fake mask of humility into pieces. And put on the mask of arrogance if needed.
Abhijit Naskar
#5. In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.
Johannes Tauler
#6. Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!
E.A. Bucchianeri
#7. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Dee Hock
#8. The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.
John Piper
#9. I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.
C.P. Snow
#10. Simplicity gives you the power of freedom.
Kindness gives you the power of boldness.
Humility gives you the power of acceptance.
Debasish Mridha
#11. Confidence is this: Wearing your triumphs with humility, and wearing your scars with pride. Many of us do precisely the opposite.
Umair Haque
#12. Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
Criss Jami
#13. Do not let me hear
Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession,
Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God.
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
T. S. Eliot
#15. When you use the power of empathy, love and kindness to heal the humanity, it dances with joy, gratitude, and humility.
Debasish Mridha
#16. There are three keys for your journey. Humility, wisdom, love. Don't leave without them - they will enrich you all the way. And they will bless those around you.
Anusha Atukorala
#17. Simplicity and humility, not power or status, will bring you joy and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#18. Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.
Ramakrishna
#19. It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
Stephen Covey
#20. I rather choose to go through what will make me humble than to go for what will increase my pride to a level without limit
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#21. I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
Jasper Fforde
#22. With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
Ezra Taft Benson
#23. Humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.
John Piper
#24. Never be proud but show humility towards others, true wisdom lies in being humble.
Radhe Maa
#25. We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.
Michel De Montaigne
#26. Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#27. Wisdom begins with the humility to say there's a great deal I don't understand.
Randy Alcorn
#28. A man, who like Satan, momentarily thought himself the equal of God and who, with all the humility of a Christian, came to realize in God's hands alone reside supreme power and infinite wisdom.
Alexandre Dumas
#29. A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander Pope
#30. In my opinion, the teaching, rearing, and training of children requires more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility, strength, wisdom, spirituality, perseverance, and hard work than any other challenge we might have in life.
James E. Faust
#33. All knowledge meets an end at the question ' ... Why?
Criss Jami
#34. The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.
Thomas A Kempis
#36. If you are aware of your humility, then you are arrogant.
Ibn Ata Allah
#37. The fear of the LORD is instruction in wisdom, and k humility comes before honor.
Anonymous
#38. For the Javanese...the purpose of knowledge (kaweruh) is love, not ambition or cleverness. Knowledge comes from caring enough to suffer and learn.
Therese Walsh
#39. Love yourself first to fill your heart with bliss. Now give it away with humility, love, and gratitude.
Debasish Mridha
#40. All the world's follies," he replied, "turn up in publishing houses sooner or later. But the world's follies may also contain flashes of the wisdom of the Most High, so the wise man observes folly with humility." Then
Umberto Eco
#41. 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
#42. I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
Abraham Lincoln
#44. Those that expose themselves as knowing the truth, lose the battle of innocence and humility and eventually pull a trigger at the universe. Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.
Akiane Kramarik
#45. question the ways of the almighty God? To face God is to be humbled. With humility comes wisdom; with wisdom comes the strength to wait upon the Lord.
David Jeremiah
#46. My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are concerned with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln
#47. The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#48. Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
Alexandre Dumas
#52. There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.
Peter V. Brett
#53. The keys to health and weight-loss: stress reduction, sleep, deep breathing, clean water, complete nutrition, sunshine, walking, stretching, meditation, love, community, laughter, dreams, perseverance, purpose, humility, action.
Bryant McGill
#54. Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.
Criss Jami
#55. Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might.
Radhe Maa
#56. It is possible to be confident and still practice humility. Be confident in the success of the teachable, sure in the power & grace of That which supports you.
Russell Kyle
#57. While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
Karl Popper
#58. Ripples of karmic events are best humbly done in an artistic, significant, unique karmic harvests without any forms of retaliation.
Angelica Hopes
#59. Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
George Arliss
#60. The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
Criss Jami
#61. A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.
Criss Jami
#62. Perfect understanding of the infinite requires limitless intellectual capacity; our undivided attention is better suited for humbler aspirations.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#63. In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.
Nicholas Of Cusa
#65. The most evocative life memories, which produced a synesthesia of emotions, consist of a host of small pleasures intertwined with the homespun stitches of love, affection, kindness, humility, and appreciation of nature.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#66. Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration.
Klaus Schwab
#67. The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God
J.I. Packer
#68. I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days. You don't have it yet, but you have a shadow of the beginnings of it. You haven't the humbleness of mind-"
"I thought the fear of the Lord was the beginning of wisdom."
"It's the same thing. Humility.
Harper Lee
#69. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
Criss Jami
#70. Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them.
Immaculee Ilibagiza
#73. Perhaps humility is the greatest wisdom of all.
James Rozoff
#74. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
The houses are all gone under the sea.
The dancers are all gone under the hill.
T. S. Eliot
#75. History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.
Gordon S. Wood
#77. No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.
Gautama Buddha
#78. The purpose of religion is to enhance love, compassion, kindness, and care.
It teaches us forgiveness, humility, tolerance, patience, and to share.
Debasish Mridha
#79. Knowledge cannot be attained except through humility.
Idries Shah
#80. The path to wisdom is paved with humility.
Tim Fargo
#81. 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good behavior his works in the humility of wisdom.
Rick Joyner
#82. Enjoy the mountains; they have beauty and wisdom for us if we approach them with humility, respect, and knowledge.
Charles Houston
#83. Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
William C. Menninger
#84. When you do understand the environment and can make an outstanding contribution, there's considerable wisdom in practicing humility. If you really are a plus one, people will notice - and they're even more likely to give you credit for it if you're not trying to rub their noses in your greatness.
Chris Hadfield
#85. The measure of greatness is in humility, simplicity, and in kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#86. Value the wisdom of humility, as well as the sense of perspective it gives you.
Chris Hadfield
#87. Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.
Donella Meadows
#88. Every challenge makes us to humble our selves. We learn to know and depend on our Creator.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#89. Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.
Dejan Stojanovic
#90. Confidence is good, but confidence with humility is far better.
Debasish Mridha
#91. It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi
#92. Your selling point is that unique quality like integrity,teachability, honesty, humility, skill, sagacity, love, self-confidence, vision, compassion and kindness which distinguishes you among your contemporaries.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#93. When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
Anonymous
#94. Make me the father, O Lord, who will show my sons enough of a sense of humor, so that they will always be serious, but never take themselves too seriously. Give them humility, so they will always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.
Thom S. Rainer
#95. Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.
W. Somerset Maugham
#96. Those that would attain wisdom,
prefer the empty stadium.
Those who wish to appear wise,
prefer it full.
Tom Althouse
#97. The most wonderful thing about being well-traveled in life experiences and adventures, is the humility / humanity AND wisdom it gives us who venture._nickc
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#98. Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!
C. JoyBell C.
#99. In an ideal world, the voices that teach us language teach us self-respect, self-confidence, and self-esteem. Those same voices also form in us humility and gratitude, and as those voices inform our inner voices, they also pass on wisdom.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#100. Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.
Lajos Kossuth
