humility Quotes

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

Nobody's indispensable.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.