The opposite of education isn't ignorance but miseducation. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The virtuous worry about their integrity, lesser humans (say, academics) about their reputation.

Some people do not know their own interest — just consider addicts, workaholics, people trapped in a bad relationship, people who support large government, the press, book reviewers, or respectable bureaucrats, all of whom for some mysterious reason act against their own interest.

To become a successful philosopher king, it is much better to start as a king than as a philosopher.