If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
This line is widely circulated under this name. It may be a paraphrase, a later coinage, or a doubtful ascription. It stays because the collection used it; treat the byline as traditional, not proven.
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Hemingway
The Commonplace