Robert Schumann Quotes

The one thing I've found is that someone always knows more than you do, including your babies. There are loads of things people presume I know about that I don't.

You know how I'm smart? I got people around me who know more than I do.

If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result.

There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.

It is a great presumption to ascribe our successes to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather as it is the bounty of heaven, than the acquisition of our own prudence.

I enjoyed reading Batman, and Superman, and all the super ones, but I never wished I created them. I've got to let there be some work for other people!

I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.

It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.

Some people are destined to be deep thinkers. I am not one of those people.

I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom not separated from it.

There are real teachers out there; I don't pretend to have their mantle.

You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

We must learn a new modesty. We have stormed the heavens, but succeeded only in building fog upon fog, a mist which will not support anybody who earnestly desires to stand upon it. What is valid seems so insignificant that it may be seriously doubted whether anlaysis is at all possible.

I would say nobody is perfect. I don't know all the answers. I have don't want to run people's lives and run the world and run the economy. So, my qualifications are a little bit different.

My girlfriend just told me I am one of the smartest people she knows. I told her, You need to meet other people.

I'm not going to complain about the fact that people are paying attention to my work. I suppose that wouldn't be fair.

I try to do as much as I can. I probably knew more about Earl Mills than anybody on earth besides people who actually knew him.

I've always at least tried to be self-deprecating when I say anything about myself. As long as you set the bar low, it will keep people from putting you on a pedestal, so they can't knock you off.

. The key to all of that is keeping hold of humility and keeping hold of the people around you, and making sure you stay grounded with your family and friends.

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!

I like people who don't take themselves too seriously.

I don't think as highly of myself as some people make me out to be. I am so far from arrogant, because I have been through enough to know that everything can go away in a moment. You know, I really don't understand why anyone would want to put me on a pedestal.

Don't forget where you came from and treat people a certain way.

The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.