Quotes on Humility

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.