To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Light is the symbol of truth.
It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.