4 Samuel Langhorne Clemens Quotes on Humility

Samuel Langhorne Clemens quotes on humility

52. The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

120. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

197. Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If the Eiffel Tower were now representing the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

213. It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.