You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate. – Logan Pearsall Smith

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature. – George Bernard Shaw

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. – Henry Bessemer (discovered new method of producing steel)