Quotes about Humility

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.

The idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's a little like saying, I know more about physics than my professor.

Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.

Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything.

In an inn somewhere, a wealthy guest mistakes [Rebbe Zusia] for a beggar and treats him accordingly. Later he learns his identity and comes to cry his remorse: Forgive me, Rebbe, you must - for I didn't know! Why do you ask Zusia to forgive you? Rebbe Zusia said, shaking his head and smiling. You haven't done anything bad to him; it is not Zusia you insulted but a poor beggar, so go and ask the beggars, everywhere, to forgive you!