All Quotes By Tag: Humbleness

“Ukiitwa mtoto kidini ina maana una imani na unyenyekevu mbele ya Mungu, kama ambavyo mtoto ana imani na unyenyekevu mbele ya mzazi wake. Lakini ukiitwa mtoto kidunia watu watakudharau.”

“It’s amazing how the greater you become in your spirituality, faith and walk in your purpose, the more others display their “lesser” selves. They try so hard to dim your shine, but ultimately burn themselves out.”

“Knowledge makes a man proud. Love makes him Humble. When knowledge is blended with love, man shines as do the angels of God. “His life becomes radiant.”

“Formal education and current position can define your worthiness. What makes you extraordinary is defined by your attitude towards others.”

“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]”

“I believe that a willingness to ask when they do not know is a characteristic of many great minds.”

“We must never adore ourselves due to the idea in our minds that we are of a certain rank/ have attained a certain position (whether this is social, economic, intellectual, or internal). But we must adore ourselves based upon our ability to connect with other human beings; to assimilate at the level of other people, no matter what level they are at.”

“Mere talents does not give glory to God but a humble heart.”

“I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of the sort.From poets, I moved to artists. No one was more ignorant about the arts than I; no one was more convinced that artists possessed really beautiful secrets. However, I noticed that their condition was no better than that of the poets and that both of them have the same misconceptions. Because the most skillful among them excel in their specialty, they look upon themselves as the wisest of men. In my eyes, this presumption completely tarnished their knowledge. As a result, putting myself in the place of the oracle and asking myself what I would prefer to be — what I was or what they were, to know what they have learned or to know that I know nothing — I replied to myself and to the god: I wish to remain who I am.We do not know — neither the sophists, nor the orators, nor the artists, nor I— what the True, the Good, and the Beautiful are. But there is this difference between us: although these people know nothing, they all believe they know something; whereas, I, if I know nothing, at least have no doubts about it. As a result, all this superiority in wisdom which the oracle has attributed to me reduces itself to the single point that I am strongly convinced that I am ignorant of what I do not know.”