Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it — even if I have said it — unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. – Buddha

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. – George Bernard Shaw

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. – John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding