The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.
Richard WhatelyIn our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.
Richard WhatelyThe heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but it demanded none. The very pretension to truth, the very demand of faith, were characteristic distinctions of Christianity.
Richard Whately