humility Quotes

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.