Learning
"Learning -- the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools,
even as light, that illuminates the eye, makes owls blind."
............... Panchatantra (c. 5th cent.) translation, Franklin Edgerton
For evidence of this, try listening to 'talk radio'.
Should we avoid learning, to avoid arrogance?
On the contrary, the arrogance of ignorance requires that we increase learning, until we achieve humility.
The proof of this is seen in every mirror. [...Changes Editor]
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing;
Dig deep, or taste not the Pierian spring,
There, shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And, drinking largely, sobers us again."
............... Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1711)
"Give instruction to a wise man and he will be yet wiser; teach a just man and he will increase in learning." Proverbs 9:9.
"For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope."
Romans 15:4."This know also, that in the last days . . . men shall be lovers of their own selves, . . . boasters, proud, . . . unthankful, unholy, . . . despisers of those that are good, . . . lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: . . . Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." 2 Tim. 3:1-7.
"A wise man will hear and increase learning . . ." Proverbs 1:5.
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