“I think that it is far commoner at the University to meet men of great attainments combined with sincere humility and charity, for the simple reason that the most erudite specialist at a University becomes aware both of the wide diversity of knowledge and of his own limitations as well.”

Benson, Arthur Christopher. “Books” in From a College Window. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1906, p. 57

Comment: Of course, academia is also a place to meet people with no humility or charity at all. They are the people with no real understanding of their tiny place in the breadth and depth and height of all that there is. But I still believe that it is true that in the world of higher learning (and in true religion!) real achievement and sincere humility go hand in hand.