The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."
— Aristotle

It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision to which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.