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Humility Quotes by Charles Darwin
- Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and…
- Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that…
- Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
- It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
- ...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one…
- What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
- Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to…
More Humility Quotes
- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart. — Saint Augustine
- Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen
- There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some… — Alfred Austin
- Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. — Teresa of Avila