“As soon as I accept my limitations, I feel peaceful.”
“Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.”
“Ego = 1÷Knowledge”
“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
“It is not for me to judge another man s life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”
“As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.”
“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”
“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
“Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!”
“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”
“Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don t.”
“The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet it is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.”
“Every person that you meet knows something you don t; learn from them.”