The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
- Flannery O'Connor
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
- Albert Guinon
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
- Michel de Montaigne
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
- Samuel Johnson