Aziz Ansari Quotes

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself.

Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.

My advice to myself would be I should probably listen to advice.

I really don't look at my accomplishments. I really don't think about myself much.

I hope I don't have an ego.

You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!

If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with thy imperfections.

Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is.

The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.

The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago.

If I had one regret in life... it's that I was not more humble at an earlier age.

I'm just someone who observes a lot.

I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.