A Quote by Joseph Hall

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

Joseph Hall

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Joseph Hall
English - Priest
July 1, 1574 - September 8, 1656

Better is the man of humble standing that works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.

Solomon

An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so.

Richard Cecil

Humility collects the soul into a single point by the power of silence. A truly humble man has no desire to be known or admired by others, but wishes to plunge from himself into himself, to become nothing, as if he had never been born. When he is completely hidden to himself in himself, he is completely with God

Isaac of Nineveh

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

Frederick William Faber

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

Helen Rowland

Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.

Rachel Cusk

The foundation of humility is truth. The humble man sees himself as he is. If his depreciation of himself were untrue,... it wouldnot be praiseworthy, and would be a form of hypocrisy, which is one of the evils of Pride. The man who is falsely humble, we know from our own experience, is one who is falsely proud.

Henry Fairlie

A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.

Saint Bernard

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the danger is, that while a man grows better pleased with himself, he may be growing less pleasing to others. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has presented.

James Boswell

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Francis Bacon

What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?

R. C. Sproul

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

Hesiod

A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.

Mark the Evangelist

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals.

Charles Darwin

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