Intellectual Humility Quotes

• Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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• The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Judgemental, Looks, Judgmental

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• I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Attitude, Humility

  Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., from article by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1997), September 28, 1949.

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• Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.

  Rick Warren

  Humble, Humility, Thinking

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.134, Zondervan

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• Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the kind we now have are in principle sufficient to understand the universe as a whole.

  Thomas Nagel

  Humility, Temptation, Intellectual

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.10, Oxford University Press

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• I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., September 28, 1949.

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• It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Humility, Self, Ideas

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• Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

  Tariq Ramadan

  Humility, Intellectual, Modesty

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• In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

  Simone Weil

  Humility, Power, Order

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.128, Psychology Press

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• Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has already discovered what is important.

  Aldo Leopold

  Humility, Land, Intellectual

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.200, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Humility, Intellectual, Judicial

  "American Federation of Labor (AFL) v. American Sash & Door Co., 335 U.S. 538". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. January 3, 1949.

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• The problem, once again, as in all sciences is the attitude of the mind that is dealing with whatever field. The problem is not philosophy but the lack of intellectual humility. It is when reason becomes arrogant that we lose track. But intellectual humility with science: this is spirituality - this is the way we are with God. So we should not be scared and we must reconcile ourselves.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Attitude, Philosophy, Humility

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• If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquillity of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. Within the depths of consciousness a flame kindles. And man sees himself. He discovers his selfishness, his silly pride, his fears, his greeds, his blunders. He develops a sense of moral obligation, intellectual humility. Thus begins a journey of the soul toward the realm of grace.

  Alexis Carrel

  Prayer, Selfish, Silly

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• We always think from where we come from. We always think from the sources that shape our understanding. I think about the world through the lens of my Islamic tradition. I accept this but I must also have intellectual humility.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islamic, Humility, Thinking

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