Chesterton on Misplaced Humility

I've begun reading Alan Jacobs' book of "Essays in Truthtelling," entitled Shaming the Devil. In his introduction he quotes the amazing G.K. Chesterton on the the subject of humility:

What we suffer from to-day 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. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert -- himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt -- the Divine Reason.

It still rings true all these years later.