Humility

"Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows."
- Unknown

"There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received from some source."
- Brigham Young

"Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner."
- Rutherford

"Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries."
- Unknown

"Knowledge is proud that she knows so much. Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."
- Cowper

"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box."
- Unknown

"He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions."
- Unknown

     "There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which everyone in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves . . . The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility . .
     "According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea-bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind . . . .
      "Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, Pride has gone. That is why I say that Pride is essentially competitive in a way the other vices are not . . . Greed may drive men into competition if there is not enough to go round; but the proud man, even when he has got more than he can possibly want, will try to get still more just to assert his power. Nearly all those evils in the world which people put down to greed or selfishness are really far more the result of Pride."
- C.S. Lewis

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