Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

The only sort of pride that may serve a man well on that rarest occasion is his hatred of being wrong. It keeps his mouth shut, his ears open, and his research extensive. And yet this is also the deadliest because when he is in fact proven wrong, he absolutely refuses to acknowledge it. It then keeps his mouth open, his ears shut, and his research inexistent.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.