humility Quotes

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business.

Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.