humility Quotes

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Rejection is the one constant of human experience.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.