“Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them”
“Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them”
“To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.”
“Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected”
“One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant”
“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”
“The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth”
“It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth”