Paulo Coelho Quotes

The fact that some things are mysterious or that they touch on mystery isn't in some way a capitulation, and one should realize that there are some things that we may never understand and, to that extent, should be humbled by that.

I'm constantly humbled.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness.

The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

Again, I don't hold it against somebody if they don't know who I am - I don't know who a lot of people are.

Men must know their limitations.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there was nothing I didn't know the answers about.

Knowing that the teams in front of us are sometimes better than you, you have to recognise that and be humble. It's part of the game.

Daniel Boulud told me at a young age, 'Whatever happens to you in your career, you're going to be great - be humble. Just be humble.' And I think about that daily. Like, whatever happens to me, whatever awards we win as a team or whatever else, just be humble.

When we look at something that is alien to us, that is beyond our comprehension, what do we see but ourselves?