John Tillotson Quotes

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

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

I don't see in myself any perfection.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

I'm not much of an analyzer or a psychologist.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.

I don't want to sound self-righteous, and I don't want to act like I have it all put together.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

I have my ignorance to thank for the few things I know.

Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.

Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best definition of humility is radical self-awareness from a distance, seeing themselves from a distance and saying, what's my problem?

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.

At once i knew i was not magnificent.

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.