Do you consider humility a virtue?

I’d like to see some humility in people. I’m so sick of seeing people who are nothing everywhere carrying on as if they’re gods fist to the planet. I notice those who have the least to be proud of are always the most self assured and smug.

Humility isn't a low perception of self, it's to be realistic and perceptive about one's self. To be humble is to believe that others are just as important as one's self, that their needs are as important as your own, and that you aren't the center of the universe after all.

The world desperately needs

I think you can still be great and have a sense of humility in order to remain grounded in your own fallibility. The opposite is narcissism and you become a complete self destructive POS like Trump.

Humility?

Not necessarily.

Hubris?

Definitely.

There will always be people better off than you and worse off than you. To realize and accept this without envy or conceit, but with unconditional love and gratitude, is to be humble.

Humility and empathy are connected. So it would be hard to be empathetic without some degree of humility.

Yes.

I really shouldn’t say.

Unless the dew point is very high.

Virtue is its own reward

And it’s more than a virtue, it’s a strength; one many of us do not possess.

I feel like one has to have a rather stable sense of self to be truly humble

R12 Agreed; a very stable and realistic sense of self and the world.

I don’t know, but my skin and my plants certainly like it.

Of course. I enjoy humiliating others.

It is the very best of virtues.

I do. One can be talented, attractive, rich, or successful and still be down to earth. You have to keep that core. It's what keeps one relatable and interesting. If people get too caught up in their own world and their own brilliance, we stop relating to them as humans. You see it all the time with celebrities.

I don’t even particularly like people, but I realize I’m living in a society and we have to all do our part.

You can’t go swanning through life as if other people are just there to serve you.

[quote] You can’t go swanning through life as if other people are just there to serve you.

Fuck off!!

Signed, Hawt men everywhere

R19 Age and karma eventually get them, too.

Here’s the thing, you can humble yourself or be humbled by life; either way, you will experience and display humility.

I never apologize, ever. I am perfect. You can do whatever you want when you're famous. I can grab 'em by the pussy.

R21 He’ll pay; he’s already started to. Those who get away with the worst for most of their lives usually end the worst.

Shout out to r16 (although you must be up there, I only got that joke from my brothers 8 track.)

And shout out to you r20. I think you really have to “be” humbled to get it right.

I consider humility a virtue in others.

I think humility also allows one to be generous with others. I'm in academia, and I guarantee you almost everyone thinks they are more brilliant than their colleagues. It causes so much meanness and pettiness and undermining and intellectual stinginess. "If I truly think highly of your work, then by extension, my own work must be inferior." It's exhausting. The truly humble academic, I think, is rare. And is, by extension, a real gem.

Humility means doing your part to make sure everybody wins. That can be accomplished through compromise and skillful negotiation and delegation.

Humility = Winning isn't everything / It's not worth to betray your own moral values in order to win something (and feel guilty about it on a subconscious level).