Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.

The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

If I had any humility I would be perfect.

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

Humility is attentive patience.

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.