Charles Darwin Quotes About Humility

Quotes about: Humility

• Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

  Charles Darwin

  Positive, Confidence, Ignorance

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

  Charles Darwin

  Humility, Men, Compassion

  Charles Darwin (2015). “The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality”, p.548, 谷月社

• It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

  Charles Darwin

  Honesty, Ignorance, Humility

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.22, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

  Charles Darwin

  Humility, Animal, Slave

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• ...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything...nor ought one to blame others.

  Charles Darwin

  Teaching, Humility, Views

• What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

  Charles Darwin

  Humility, Men, Fame

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith (1985). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1847-1850”, p.140, Cambridge University Press

• Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.

  Charles Darwin

  Friendship, Dog, Humility

  Charles Darwin (1874). “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals”, p.10

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