Only he who has a spirit of extreme humility can be said to have a resolute intellect.
— Gandhi (1926, 47)
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.— T.S. Eliot, ‘East Coker’
Stand before it and there is no beginning.
Follow it and there is no end.
Stay with the ancient Tao,
Move with the present.— Tao Te Ching 14 (Feng/English)
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness