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

Never assume the obvious is true. – William Safire, Sleeper Spy

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. – G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

Life presents you with but two avenues — you can either run with the mob or from it. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)