#humility

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

— Robin Morgan

#hoarding #humility #information #knowledge #knowledge is power

The one who is born of the earth, dreams of the sky. The one who is born of the sky, dreams of the earth. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#humility #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #attitude

When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#intelligence

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. ↗

— James K. Polk

#blessings #civil #devout #favored #humility

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question...so break 'yo'self'! ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#apology-and-attitude #ego #forgiveness #humility #mockery

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#because #cannot #condition #equally #grace

The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become - the more we realize that everything in life is a gift. The tenor of our lives becomes one of humble and joyful thanksgiving. Awareness of our poverty and ineptitude causes us to rejoice in the gift of being called out of darkness into wondrous light and translated into the kingdom of God's beloved Son. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#jesus #spiritual-poverty #life

Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised. ↗

— G. Willow Wilson

#humility #life #love #life

He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric. ↗

— George Eliot

#humility #lifestyle #relationships #age

Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them. ↗

— St. Francis de Sales

#men