If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two,
SuskindTags: certainty doubt humility
Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world.
SuskindTags: confidence humility explanation uncertainty
The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something
Richard Saul WurmanTags: wisdom honesty knowledge learning humility information
There is a world of difference between being clever and being right.
Ian DriscollTags: truth reason humility simplicity right intuition intellect clever authentic
Exceptional men do not hold their experiences to be out of the ordinary or of interest to anyone else. Unlike the trodden fungus-men, they are not so ignorantly and presumptuously self-absorbed. They are nobody and they know it. They shun notice. They are exceedingly rare.
Nick ToschesTags: men humility exceptionalism
Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory
Patricia C. WredeTags: humility memory lessons-learned character-building
We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. We are in danger of seeing philosophers who doubt the law of gravity as being a mere fancy of their own. Scoffers of old time were too proud to be convinced; but these are too humble to be convinced.
G.K. ChestertonTags: doubt humility skepticism
I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all - the highest. It is one of the [most] difficult of all... You see it's so immensely complicated. It needs real humility and at the same time, an absolute belief in one's own essential freedom. It is an act of faith. At the last moments, like all great acts, it is pure risk. This is true for me as a human being and as a writer. Dear Heaven, how hard it is to let go - to step into the blue. And yet one's creative life depends on it and one desires to do nothing else.
Katherine MansfieldTags: writing freedom faith humility creativity risk surrender
The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
Timothy J. KellerTags: god humility sin pride gospel
I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
Hermann HesseTags: humility existentialism existential humble self-loathing self-realization
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