Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

Maybe at the same time as I'm more confident today, I'm also more humble.

I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself.

Everybody needs to lower his ego.

I better be humble. I'm always checking myself.

If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons.

Being humble doesn't work as well as being aware.

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

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

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.

If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with thy imperfections.

The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

I can talk about humility, but I'm not humble. I mean, if you say, I'm humble, you've just contradicted yourself. But I'm trying to be, man, I'm trying so hard.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

The thing I always tell my audiences all the time is that I'm just two steps ahead of you on a good day. And I might be two steps behind you on a bad day.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

I know I'm not perfect.

I don't see in myself any perfection.

I'm not good at watching myself.

I have to humble myself.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.