When I’m not as humble as I ought to be, I tend to get knocked down. What I do is to glorify God. – Shelly Burch
We have to remain humble about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful tools remain pretty blunt instruments for decoding the brain. In fact, we still do not know how to decipher the basic language of how the brain works. – Thomas R. Insel
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. – William Tecumseh Sherman
Your humble critic confesses that he has been wrestling with ‘weight issues’ since leaving college lo these, uh, several years ago, so it’s hard to be receptive to the moralistic scolding and patronizing encouragement offered endlessly by the allegedly well-meaning. – Tom Shales
I don’t enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens. – Simon Sinek
Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president. – Timothy Noah
I never got to meet Michael Jackson, and he’s gone – so to be on stage with Prince was like if Michael… you know what I’m saying? And Prince, he’s just such a warmhearted guy. He’s so humble. He’s such a spiritual man. I like his style. – Sharon Jones
Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors. – Thaddeus Stevens
Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of modern medicine. Genetics owes a huge debt to the humble fruit fly. There’s almost no branch of the life sciences, in fact, that hasn’t leaned heavily on one animal or another. – Sam Kean
So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride – that’s everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves. – Tim Tebow
I feel very honoured and humbled to have people think, ‘If Yuna can break through, then why can’t we?’ It takes a lot of work, but I tell people to just have that focus. Always be humble and a learner, practice and do research. – Yuna
But my humble opinion is, I’m not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs – though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal. – Ted Demme
To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow. – William Dunbar
If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it. – Walter Gropius
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come – even if it came in a – living room – or to someone – with a humble living. – Stefan Hell
I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I’ve hired many people at very strange places. – Tony Fernandes
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. – William Penn
You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft. – Talib Kweli
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. – Sigmund Freud
I’m very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show. – Shawn Ryan
I’m not cocky at all. You ask anybody, I’m one of the nicest guys. I try to be as humble as I can, but if you work hard, sometimes you know that you earned more respect. – Shabazz Muhammad