“Humility is the first step in self-reflection,” writes Christopher M. Bellitto in his new book, Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue. “It makes us have second thoughts. It opens us to our ...

The Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, a friend of Adam Smith, called humility one of the “monkish” virtues, and he didn’t mean that as a compliment. Humble people, he seemed to say, weren ...

Jen Cole Wright received funding for some of her research on humility from the Templeton Foundation. The default psychological setting for human beings is an unavoidable self-centeredness. We each ...