Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows

Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

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

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

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I read more

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own
esteem.
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The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own
esteem.
- Charles Hadden Spurgeon,

Don't be so humble--you are not that great.

Don't be so humble--you are not that great.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.