James P Carse- The Religious Case Against Belief

If God held all truth in his right hand and in his left hand the everlasting striving after truth, so that I could always and everlastingly be mistaken, and said to me, "Choose," with humility I would pick the left hand and say, "Father, grant me that. Absolute truth is for thee alone." - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

[Galileo] knew, as any critical thinker would, that knowledge is corrigible, and that belief is rarely so. Open to correction himself, he had no inclination and no reason to take an immovable stand. He could not perform a heroic act like Luther's not because of cowardice but because there was nothing to stand on ... Galileo knew as well as anyone that there is no protecting ourselves from what discoveries the future brings.

We might say that we join the communitas when the questions being asked there becomes our questions.

In fact, never can we make a judgment of another with clean motives--even when such a judgment is appropriate. Evil is real. It is unmistakeably there in the world, and just as unmistakeably in ourselves.