Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right. (Henry Ford)

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. (Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930))

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as beingself-evident. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. (Saint Augustine)