Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right. — Arthur Schopenhauer. German philosopher (1788–1860)
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.