Humility Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

16 Humility quotes by G.K. Chesterton

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G.K. Chesterton’s wit never loses its edge when he writes about humility. In these sixteen pieces, his paradoxical humor and earnest conviction dance together, offering a fresh look at modesty.

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“The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.”

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“The secret of life lies in laughter and humility.”

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“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”

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“All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in…

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“We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. We are…

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“For with any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. There comes a certain point in such conditions when…

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“Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which you are accustomed to seeing or hearing…

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“What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition and settled upon…

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“Humility is perpetually putting us back in the primal darkness. There all light is lightning, startling and instantaneous. Until we understand that…

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“It was the outstanding fact about St. Thomas [Aquinas] that he loved books and lived on books ... When asked for what…

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“Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to…

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“The man who said, "Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed," put the eulogy quite inadequately and…

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“But the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and the rapacity of a…

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“No one has even begun to understand comradeship who does not accept with it a certain hearty eagerness in eating, drinking, or…

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“The average pagan, like the average agnostic, would merely say that he was content with himself, but so insolently self-satisfied, that there…

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“I found the whole modern world talking scientific fatalism; saying that everything is as it must always have been, being unfolded without…

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