122 quotes
“We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.”
— Saint Augustine
“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury — to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone.”
— Unknown
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.”
— Confucius
“Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply.”
— James Merrick
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
— Isaac Newton
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“The more I read the more I acquire the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
— Voltaire
“Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility and the beginning of all wisdom”
— Simone Weil
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists.”
— Lao Tzu
“I am still learning.”
— Michelangelo
“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows without the humility of wonder”
— Epictetus
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Who has not served cannot command.”
— John Florio
“Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.”
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
“Thou hast given so much to me, give one thing more — a grateful heart.”
— George Herbert
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
“A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. True peace needs no crown.”
— Frederick the Great
“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
— Thomas à Kempis
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
— Socrates
“I do not think that I know what I know.”
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”
“Live simply so that others may simply live”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful.”
— Wendell Berry
“That man is wisest who realizes that his wisdom is worthless.”
— Plato
“The position of the artist is humble he is essentially a channel”
— Piet Mondrian
“He that is down needs fear no fall.”
— John Bunyan
“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.”
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.”
— Thomas Huxley
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
— Rumi
“To lead people walk behind them.”
“Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.”
— Book of Proverbs
“To lead the people, walk behind them.”
“Just because you are CEO do not think you have landed the job is not about the corner office”
— Indra Nooyi
“Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.”
— Nicolas Chamfort
“One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.”
“The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.”
— William Wordsworth
“I know that I know nothing.”
“If you want to improve be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster”
— David Hume
“If all mankind were to disappear the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago if insects were to vanish the environment would collapse into chaos”
— E.O. Wilson
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of our ignorance.”
“The real leader has no need to lead — he is content to point the way.”
— Henry Miller
“The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.”
“God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.”
— Izaak Walton
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
“One who is grateful for small things receives great things.”
— Saadi Shirazi
“I no doubt deserved my enemies but I do not believe I deserved my friends”
— Walt Whitman
“The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it.”
— Blaise Pascal
“The wise are not learned; the learned are not wise.”
— Laozi
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex”
— E.F. Schumacher
“The faults of others we write upon sand, our own virtues we write in marble.”
— Thomas More
“You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”
— Vandana Shiva
“When we become aware of our humility, we have already lost it. Thus we may be most truly grateful when we are not aware that we are grateful.”
— Thomas Merton
“The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.”
“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion; bewilderment is intuition.”
“When you drink the water, remember the spring.”
“The learned man knows that he is ignorant.”
— Victor Hugo
“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”
— Montesquieu
“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists when his work is done they will say we did it ourselves”
“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
— Robert Hand
“Ignorance teaches courage, while learning teaches humility.”
— Alexander Pope
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts. Peace requires humility.”
— Bertrand Russell
“That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness, these are the real heroisms.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.”
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”
“The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.”
“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.”
— Persian Proverb
“Who is wise? He that learns from every one. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
“A truly knowledgeable person does not deny what they know.”
— Xunzi
“All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruin.”
— Ovid
“To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“I do not think I know what I know.”
“The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.”
“If all mankind were to disappear the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago”
“When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.”
— Vietnamese Proverb
“The only thing I know is that I know nothing.”
“Do not worry about holding high family position. Worry about playing your proper family role.”
— Dorothy Day
“The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.”
“The more you know, the more you realize you do not know.”
— Aristotle
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
“To know what you know, and to know what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”
“If heaven had granted me five more years I could have become a real painter”
— Katsushika Hokusai
“You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders it is good to remember that the planet is carrying you”
“When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'”
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
“When the world pushes you to your knees, you are in the perfect position to pray.”
“It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know wonder and humility”
— Rachel Carson
“Just because you are CEO do not think you have landed life is an unpredictable thing”
“When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.”
“To know, is to know that you know nothing.”
“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
— Meister Eckhart
“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”
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