" Do not believe in what you have heard;

Do not believe in traditions

because they have been handed down

for many generations;

Do not believe in anything

because it is rumoured

and spoken about by many;

Do not believe merely because the

written statements of some old sage are produced;

Do not believe in conjectures;

Do not believe in that as truth

to which you have become

attached by habit;

Do not believe merely on the authority

of your teachers and elders;

After observation and analysis,

when it agrees with reason and is

conducive to the good and benefit of

one and all, then accept it

and live up to it."

Gautama Buddha