Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul DePodesta

We need to be humble in the face of uncertainty

Paul Dirac

If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how to proceed, I have just had to wait until I have felt the mathematics led me by the hand. It has led me along an unexpected path, a path where new vistas open up, a path leading to new territory, where one can set up a base of operations, from which one can survey the surroundings and plan future progress.

John Piper

Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ.

John Piper

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

Martin Luther

Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.

Martin Luther

Your God is altogether too human.

Martin Luther

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

Martin Luther

Your thoughts of God are too human

Martin Luther

The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.

Martin Luther

God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

Mark Pincus

I think failing is the best way to keep you grounded, curious, and humble. Success is dangerous because often you don't understand why you succeeded. You almost always know why you've failed. You have a lot of time to think about it.

Marilyn French

Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.

Nick Bostrom

Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.

Mose Allison

There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.

P. G. Wodehouse

He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable, had had a good deal of material left over which she had not liked to throw away but hardly seemed able to fit into the general scheme.

P. G. Wodehouse

It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as a Pekinese puppy.

P. G. Wodehouse

Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the fact that, never having played golf, they never knew that strange chastening humility which is engendered by a topped chip shot. If Cleopatra had been ousted in the first round of the Ladies' Singles, we should have heard a lot less of her proud imperiousness.

P. G. Wodehouse

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

P. G. Wodehouse

It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't

P. G. Wodehouse

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

P. G. Wodehouse

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

Paul Elmer More

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

Masanobu Fukuoka

The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

Marshall McLuhan

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

Marion Ross

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

Margery Allingham

Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.

Oswald Chambers

Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

Paul Samuelson

Economists have much to be humble about.

Paul Harvey

Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before.

Paul Hawken

It is critical to realize that underlying the extermination of nature is the marginalization of human beings. If we are to save what is wild, what is irreparable and majestic in nature, then we will ironically have to turn to each other and take care of all the human beings here on Earth. There is no boundary that will protect an environment from a suffering humanity.

Julia Ormond

The product supply chain, from source material to store, is an organizing map for delivering human rights.

Joseph Rotblat

Above all remember your humanity.