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It is an act of will, and, even when done as an adult, more an assertion of one’s own identity and self-estimation than an appraisal of the particular merits of a person or thing.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 21, 2018

On this topic the author produces a splendid moral essay, in which he describes the various modes of our self-estimation, and draws a contrast between pride and vanity.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

In a word, he was his idea of himself: and this insight opens a new chapter not only in his philosophy but in the history of human self-estimation.

From Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays by Santayana, George

That is to say, in general the error of self-estimation tends to be half again as great as the average error of the judgments of associates.

From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Hollingworth, Harry L.

He was cursed with the possession of a power and authority which no man of narrow mind, bitter prejudices, and inordinate self-estimation can exercise without depraving himself as well as injuring the nation.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various