"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." —Galileo Galilei
"The faculty to think objectively is the reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one's reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility and if one has emerged from the dreams of omniscience and omnipotence that one has as a child. Love, being dependent on the relative absence of narcissism, requires the development of humility, objectivity, and reason.
I must try to see the difference between my picture of a person and his behavior, as it is narcissistically distorted, and the person's reality as it exists regardless of my interests, needs, and fears." —Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
