Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking. – Alfred North Whitehead

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

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. People get the history they deserve. – Charles de Gaulle

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. – Voltaire