IT was Matthew Arnold, read and reverenced by the generation immediately preceding our own, who set to our eyes a definition and a goal of culture which has become the common property of all our world ...

Many years ago we had staying with us a clergyman to whom I listened with close attention. One day he spoke of someone as “having the rare grace of humility.” I think he must have meant that this ...

The word human comes from the Latin word humus, which means soil, earth, dirt, and dust. The word humility interestingly comes from the same root word – humus. To be humble then is to be humus – ...

"In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because ‘God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.’ ...

In Christopher Moore’s tongue-in-cheek book Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, the author describes the teachings of the Tao. “The three jewels of the Tao: compassion, ...

The Greater Good Science Center’s three-year Intellectual Humility Project aimed to raise awareness of research on intellectual humility and its implications. As part of that, we supported 19 ...

“[O]ur picture of ourselves has become too grand,” Iris Murdoch lamented in 1997. “We have lost the vision of a reality separate from ourselves.” Today, humility is considered a vice in many corners ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This commentary is a response to the article “Killing Fish to Save Frogs,” by Ted Williams, a contributor to Writers on the Range. The Daily Yonder published Williams’ commentary on May ...