humility Quotes

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career, and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice. Well, what can you do about it? Next.

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.