“We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“If a perfectly moral man entered our world, he would be humiliated, tortured, and at last, after suffering every evil, he would be crucified.”

— Plato

“An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.”

—Proverbs 18:15

“O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth!”

— John Knox

“Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.”

— John Calvin

“Error, indeed, is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced (ridiculous as the expression may seem) more true than the truth itself.”

—Saint Irenaeus of Lyon