Pride comes before a fall.
Proverb
Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:18 NIV version
“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
Leo Tolstoy, 1897 (The Big Short)
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. “
Mark Twain
