Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Letter to Sir  Joshua Reynolds,17  Jul. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

Ich habe also demnach keine Erkenntnis von mir, wie ich bin, sondern bloÞ, wie ich mir selbst erscheine. Das Bewusstsein seiner selbst ist also noch lange nicht eine Erkenntnis seiner selbst. I have no knowledge of myself as I am but merely as I appear to myself. The consciousness of myself is thus very far from being a knowledge of the self.

-Kant, Immanuel
Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Critique of Pure Reason), B158 (translated by N Kemp Smith).