We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it. – Charles Dudley Warner

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

How glorious it is — and also how painful — to be an exception. – Alfred de Musset

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. – Elbert Hubbard, The Note-Book, 1927