Be not proud because of thy learning, for no limit can be set to skill, neither is there any craftsman that possesseth full advantages. To hear is to profit; the ear of him who hears is perfect.
Ptahhotep, or Ptah-hotep – Ancient Egypt vizier and government official (Fifth Dynasty, ca. 2.400 B. C.) from his “Instructions of Ptahhotep” (c. 2.400 B. C., discovered 1847), following the free English translation by Miriam Lichtheim (American-Israeli egyptologist, 1914-2004) from “Ancient Egyptian Literature, Vol. I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms” (1975) and the translation from Battiscombe G. Gunn (1883-1950), in “The Instruction of Ptahhotep and the Instruction of Ke’gemni: The Oldest Books in the World” 1906)