All that jazz...

*Brilliance would not mean anything
If no one affirms that you are.

*Flimsy excuses are always pathetic.
No one will buy it.
Declaring to everyone that you are not selling it
Is just another pathetic excuse that no one will ever buy.

*No one is perfect
and it is perfectly okay to admit that you are wrong if you indeed are.

*Humility, it is so rare to see these days...
Sad, but true...