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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it; nor be much concerned when he misses it.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
The best way to come to truth being to examine things as really they are, and not to conclude they are, as we fancy of ourselves, or have been taught by others to imagine.
False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)