#humility

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#avoids #aware #clever #competent #full

Humility is considered an un-masculine quality. ↗

— David Duchovny

#humility #quality

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#cloak #her #honorable #humility #often

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

— Laurel Lee

#disease #humiliations #humility #series #treatment

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#christian #eating #go #higher #his

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

— Bryant H. McGill

#except #humility #love is #moments #nascent

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right. ↗

— Paul Elmer More

#defense #doubting #god #good #his

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world. ↗

— Katy Perry

#because #caught #conversation #easy #foundation

I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world. ↗

— Katy Perry

#caught #easy #honestly #humility #i

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#beloved #desire #god #heart #humble