“He who esteems himself highly on account of his knowledge,” he teaches, “is like a corpse lying on the wayside: the traveler turns his head away in disgust, and walks quickly by.”

–Akiba ben Yosef widely known as Rabbi Akiva (50 CE – 137 CE), was a tanna of the latter part of the first century and the beginning of the second century. Rabbi Akiva was a leading contributor to the Mishnah and to Midrash halakha. Wikipedia