It's not about being the best, it's about being better than you were yesterday.
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.
You have begot me, bred me, loved me: I Return those duties back as are right fit, Obey you, love you, and most honour you.