#humility

Passages on humility from many traditions.

“Not the perversities of others, not their sins of commission or omission, but his own misdeeds and negligences should a sage take notice of.”

— Dhammapada, verse 50 (trans. F. Max Müller) · Buddhism · #humility · source

“The highest excellence is like (that of) water.”

— Tao Te Ching, ch. 8 (trans. James Legge) · Taoism · #humility · source

“He is free from self-display, and therefore he shines”

— Tao Te Ching, ch. 22 (trans. James Legge) · Taoism · #humility · source

“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;--this is knowledge.”

— Analects 2:17 (trans. James Legge) · Confucianism · #humility · source

“Despise no man and deem nothing impossible; every man hath his hour and everything its place.”

— Ben Azzai, Pirkei Avot 4:3 (from Hebraic Literature, 1901) · Judaism · #humility · source

“Sweetness and humility, O Nanak, are the essence of virtue and goodness.”

— Guru Granth Sahib, Ang 470, Guru Nanak (trans. Sant Singh Khalsa) · Sikhism · #humility · source

“How couldst thou forget thine own faults and busy thyself with the faults of others?”

— Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, Arabic 27 (trans. Shoghi Effendi) · Baha'i · #humility · source

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