About this quote

Humility is hard to find, but self-awareness is even rarer. We all deal with people who refuse to admit they lack answers. It gets tiring when you actually did the work to learn the facts. You can waste your breath arguing, or you can just let their own arrogance trip them up. Real knowledge does not need to shout.

When to use it

• During Thanksgiving dinner, when your uncle starts explaining the mechanics of your college major to you even though he has never read a book on the subject.
• When your coworker insists they know how to run the new database system without training, but ends up locking everyone out of the server.
• When a casual fan at the bar tries to tell a retired semi-pro player how to properly kick a penalty shootout.
• When your friend gives you aggressive stock market investment tips but still asks you to cover his half of the lunch bill.