“They could not all be right. At least, some had to be more right than others. Or less wrong.”

“Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic.”

“The human being must always be central, not the products and objects of his skill and energy.”

“Is deviation from the locally approved norms always and everywhere to be taken as disease?”

“Surely it is the one who fears he is wrong who avoids criticism. The one who is sure he is right invites it. It only illuminates the strength of beliefs and makes them more available to others.”

“Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts”

“... I believe in some sense much akin to the belief of faith, that I noticed, felt, or underwent what I describe—but it may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess, they are the worst remembered and so offer the least resistance to that process by which we mold them nearer and nearer to an ideal which is fundamentally artistic, or at least nonfactual; so it may be that some of these events I describe never occurred at all, but only should have, and that others had not the shades and flavors—for example, of jealousy or antiquity or shame—that I have later unconsciously chosen to give them...”