To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'
At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.
Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.