"Important truths begin as outrageous, or at least uncomfortable, attacks upon the accepted wisdom of the time"

The ultimate search of every soul on this earth is the truth. Truth about the society, truth about oneself or truth about anything, the search for truth starts with an outrageous attack on the socially accepted entities. The one who differs from the conformed ways of the society and thinks in an eccentric way is the one who finds the truth. The world itself stands as an example for this. 

The ancient Greeks and Romans, considered to be the far most advanced civilization of their period imagined that the earth was a flat disc. They believed that when a person goes beyond a certain point, he might actually trip and fall into an abyss. The questioning of Galileo and Copernicus of this scenario when everybody conferred that earth was flat disc made the startling revelation that, the earth was an ellipse and not a flat disc as everyone had thought. This came as a shock to a lot of learned people of that time and was not accepted but with the advancements of science and technology now everybody knows what the truth is?

It is not only in the materialistic world search for truth is like this. Even a similar kind of a situation can be found in the spiritual world. During the renaissance period the Catholic Church was the commonly accepted church. The bibles where in Latin and the common man had to believe whatever the clergy said. One man questioned the existing norms, he was considered sacrilegious at his time. He had to undergo a lot of trouble to bring the bible in English and close to the common man, it was the Lutheran mission that brought about a great change and unraveled the truth. 

Be it in the case of Galileo and Copernicus or Martin Luther King the search for truth was not a bed of roses, but a bed of thorns. They had to swim against the tides of a huge amount of peoples beliefs. They never got deterred in their cause and ultimately found the truth. Either in the spiritual world or the materialistic world when it comes to truth it has always been brought out only by questioning the existing beliefs and always will be!