> [!quote] Original - [wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer#The_World_as_Will_and_Representation_(1819;_1844;_1859)) > all knowledge, and especially the weightiest knowledge of the truth, to which only a brief triumph is allotted between the two long periods in which it is condemned as paradoxical or disparaged as trivial. > [!quote] Misquote > All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.