Solomon’s exhortation was for good reason. Truth is as vital to spiritual life as air is to physical. Many observations have been made about truth through the ages that attest to the above wisdom.

“Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.” Austin O’Malley

“Facts that are not frankly faced have a habit of stabbing us in the back.”
Harold Bowden

“There is no progress in fundamental truth – we may grow in knowledge of its meaning, and in the modes of its application, but its great principles will forever be the same.”
W. Radcliffe

“Keep one thing forever in view – the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinions of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.” Horace Mann

“If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.” Stopford A. Brooke

“Falsehood is in a hurry; it may be at any moment detected and punished; truth is calm, serene; its judgment is on high; its king cometh out of the chambers of eternity.” Joseph Parker

“Truth is the gravitation principle of the universe, by which it is supported, and in which it inheres.” E. M. Evarts

“Truth is by its very nature intolerant, exclusive, for every truth is the denial of its opposing error.” Luthardt

“It is not enough that we swallow truth; we must feed upon it, as insects do on the leaf, till the whole heart be colored by its qualities, and show its food in every fiber.” Coleridge