The fruit of love’s great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility. –Farid al-Din Attar (1145-1220)
You Know What You Are.
If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. — Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
Disasters Teach Us Humility
Disasters teach us humility. — Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109)
All A Person Needs
I’ve learned… That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand. — Andy Rooney (1919-2011)
Nature Makes Penicillin
Nature makes penicillin; I just found it. — Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)
True humility
True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. — C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
True Intelligence
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence. –John Calvin (1509-1564)
Angels in Disguise
Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise. — WB Yeats (1865-1939)
Unfrequented Paths
Decline from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths. — Pythagoras (570-495 BC)
Humility
If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless. — St. Augustine of Canterbury (?-604)