We have a rose-colored view of who we are and what we do, and we aim to behave in ways that are consistent with our self-image as capable, competent, helpful, and honest individuals.

FORBES: Why Do Our Decisions Get Derailed?

Britain had to fall back on claims of safer, more competent and more scholarly stewardship: claims now demolished, almost literally, by the image of British workmen in overalls scraping their blades across the shoulders of the gods.

ECONOMIST: Scraping the marbles