Humility Quotes

"It's definitely important to never forget where you're coming from, where you were born and raised."

"I don't care about All-Star or the fame that comes with it, the recognition."

"My dad is my most sincere critic. He likes me to be always humble about most things."

"Dreams of a Life' and 'Fresh Meat' have left me on such a high. I'm not complaining but I'm not complacent either."

"I have no idea how to ever sell myself in a snazzy way."

“We don't know everything all the time, and that's OK.”

“You're never going to learn everything.”

“You never toot your own horn.”

“If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.”

“I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, "I've made it."

“Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.”

“I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.”

"Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will deserve to receive greater."

Thomas à Kempis

"Do not be proud, says Kabir; Time holds you by the hair. Who knows where it will strike – at home or in a foreign land."

Kabir

"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."

Gustave Flaubert

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists; when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

"Even the most learned, when closely examined, will be found not wholly free of ignorance."

Thiruvalluvar

"Speak such words that lose your ego; they bring calm to others and to yourself as well."

Kabir

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

Albert Einstein

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."

Voltaire

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."

Charles Darwin

"Truth is the shattered mirror strewn in myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own."

Sir Richard Burton

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge."

Daniel J. Boorstin

"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"

Kahlil Gibran