Mark Twain apocryphally said, “I’m in favor of progress; it’s change I don’t like.” This quote pithily underscores the human tendency to desire growth while also harboring strong resistance to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘Research shows that people with higher intellectual humility think more critically, and are less biased and less prone to ...

In July 2022, the GGSC announced the 19 winners of our grants to support the production of innovative nonfiction stories on intellectual humility. In addition to financial support, offered in ...

(THE CONVERSATION) With unlimited information at our fingertips and dozens of platforms on which to share our opinions, it can sometimes feel like we’re supposed to be experts in everything. It can be ...

In his memoir The Restless Wave, the late U.S. Senator John McCain lamented the near disappearance of humility and rise of hostility for those holding opposing political beliefs in American politics: ...

In his 1861 treatise “Walking,” a remarkable reflection on life’s ample complexities, Henry David Thoreau poses a question vital even today: “Which is the best man to deal with — he who knows nothing ...

Contributing columnist William McKenzie writes about a new study that shows intellectual humility not only helps us connect with one another, but makes us more persuasive. RYGERSZEM / Getty ...

The greatest challenge to fruitful dialogue, debate, and activism at Boston College is not a lack of intelligence or ignorance among students, but rather what I have diagnosed as an attitude of ...

Elise Ji Young Choe receives funding related to this research from a grant from the John Templeton Foundation on "Intellectual Humility and Religious Leaders." Steven Sandage receives funding related ...

“[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 ...

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 ...