"Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence."

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Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others and achieve eminence . . . Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements.

— Hugh Nibley