An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have p… - Samuel Butler

Their view evidently was that genius was like offences--needs must that it come, but woe unto that man through whom it comes. A man’s business, they hold, is to think as his neighbours do, for Heaven help him if he thinks good what they count bad. And really it is hard to see how the Erewhonian theory differs from our own, for the word “idiot” only means a person who forms his opinions for himself.

It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.

It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.