A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.
Time makes more converts than reason.
Such to man is the life according to reason, since it is this that makes him man. The unexamined life is not worth living. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.