| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 39821 |
| QUOTATION: | A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Milton (1608–1674), British poet. Areopagitica: a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England (1644). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Milton Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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