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What is the most overrated virtue?

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Wisława Szymborska Poet and essayist; Nobel laureate in Literature, 1996
All sorts of torturers, dictators, fanatics, and demagogues struggling for power by way of a few loudly shouted slogans also enjoy their jobs, and they too perform their duties with inventive fervor. Well, yes, but they “know.” They know, and whatever they know is enough for them once and for all. They don’t want to find out about anything else, since that might diminish their arguments’ force. And any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Recorded Swedish Academy, Stockholm, 7 December 1996, The Nobel Foundation (nobelprize.org), 7 December 1996 source ↗
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Novelist and essayist
I also knew that victimhood is not a virtue. That being discriminated against does not make you somehow morally better.
Recorded Wellesley College 137th Commencement, 29 May 2015 source ↗
Debbie Millman Designer; host of Design Matters; founder of the SVA branding programme
one of the things that I learned from doing Design Matters from my guest Danny Shapiro, and I think I mentioned this in part one of my interview with Tim; confidence is overrated. Danny Shapiro has said that what is more important than confidence is courage.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 22 June 2018 source ↗

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