If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. — 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.