Humility in the Modern World

Chesterton:

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

—G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (San Francisco: Ignatius, 1995), 36–37.