Hugh Blair Quotes

Men are only as great as they are kind.

I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being.

The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Being humble matters.

You know, my mother had a rule which was 'people are just people.'

This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think you're better than them. But I want to continue to let people know that I'm no better and no worse, I'm just like you.

Work at being a humble person.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

I know I am no better than anyone else in this world.

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do.

You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

O, would some Power give us, To see ourselves as others see us!