Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

George Bernard Shaw

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

George Bernard Shaw

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

George Bernard Shaw

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

George Bernard Shaw

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.

Gary Larson

I never liked my own species.

Frederick William Robertson

A heart renewed--a loving heart--a penitent and humble heart--a heart broken and contrite, purified by love--that and only that is the rest of men. Spotlessness may do for angels, repentance unto life is the highest that belongs to man.

Freeman Dyson

Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.

Freeman Dyson

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Fred Brooks

Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.

Fred Brooks

One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most intricate and complex of man's handiworks. The management of this complex craft will demand our best use of new languages and systems, our best adaptation of proven engineering management methods, liberal doses of common sense, and a God-given humility to recognize our fallibility and limitations.

Franz Kafka

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

Franz Kafka

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

Eoin Colfer

Foaly twitched his tail contentedly. Genius. No point in being humble about it.

Emily VanCamp

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

Elvis Costello

I find humming is very useful.

Elon Musk

For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.

Jawaharlal Nehru

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

Jasper Fforde

I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.

Herbie Hancock

But it's all part of the humanistic approach. Humanism amid the machines, you know?

Jack Kirby

An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying godhood. It was a caste system, pure and simple. And it was accepted that way. Nobody thought of contracts, nobody thought of insisting on better deals.

J. I. Packer

We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

George Bernard Shaw

Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the very worst

It is a mass of runners, bobbing like a wave of humanity.

Alexandra Cassavetes

I think the reason vampire movies have been so popular over time is that they share so many parallels with human beings.

Last season, I was probably 70 percent. It was a very humbling experience.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Marjane Satrapi

My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people.

Bill Cosby

If you can find humour in anything, you can survive it

C. S. Lewis

Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear.

Bill Vaughan

Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.

Jones Very

The advance, which the human mind had made towards civilization, prevented Virgil from making a like impression on his own age.