He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander

If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.

When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. "That's a curious view, not uninteresting.

Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham

The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke