Best Intellectual Humility Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is said that there comes a point in every mathematics student's education when he hears himself saying to the teacher, "I think I understand"-- and that's the point at which he has hit a wall. Making sure that all gifted students hit their own personal walls is crucial for developing the empathy with the rest of the world. When they see their less lucky peers struggle academically, they need to be able to say "I know how it feels,"-- and be telling the truth.”

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Book:Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality

Source: Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality

“This is the secret of the spirit, not disclosed to reason: the adaptation of the mind to what is sacred, intellectual humility in the presence of the supreme. The mind surrenders to the mystery of spirit, not in resignation but in love.”

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Book:Thunder in the Soul: To Be Known By God

Source: Thunder in the Soul: To Be Known By God

“The recognition of knowledge and the risks associated with its absence highlights the importance of our intellectual humility and the danger of ignorance that renders us vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation. ("Alert. High noon.")”

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Author:Erik Pevernagie

“True wisdom thrives in open minds; those who tune only to their own frequency become white-noise prisoners.”

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Author:Stewart Stafford

“We need to enter the conversation willing to be wrong, willing to admit the limits of our own knowledge, willing to reconsider our evidence, sources, and premises. That is self-skepticism.”

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Book:Demagoguery and Democracy

Source: Demagoguery and Democracy

“The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility.”

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Author:Felix Frankfurter

“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.”

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Author:Tariq Ramadan

“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.”

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Author:Tariq Ramadan

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

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

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Author:Tariq Ramadan

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

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Book:The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

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

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Author:Tariq Ramadan

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

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

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Author:Tariq Ramadan

“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.”

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Book:Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

Source: Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

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

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Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

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

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Author:Albert Einstein