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Knowledge and virtue are different things, and intellectual refinement is not moral goodness

Drawn from what John Henry Newman said

Subjecthumility
What this subject means

humility Knowing what you do not know: whether it makes you learn and decide better, or costs you the self-belief that gets things done.

What John Henry Newman actually said

  1. John Henry Newman English theologian and cardinal (1801 to 1890)
    Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith.

    Where this was said

    ↗The Idea of a University, Part I: University Teaching (Discourses, 1852)gutenberg.org

    c. 1852–1890

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