humility Quotes

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Leave the rest to the gods.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.