truth-lover

I'd even venture to say that someone can be a "truth-lover" while at the same time placing little valuation on actually knowing and understanding the given truth themselves.

Notes on Masonomics, 1: Reason without Rationality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I have attempted here some hints for the truth-lover.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 Various

Saxon, 'though smacking of double dealing in a truth-lover like yourself.

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

I fornicate with that unclean thing, my adversaries may think, whereas your genuine truth-lover must discourse in huxleyan heroics, and feel as if truth, to be real truth, ought to bring eventual messages of death to all our satisfactions.

Meaning of Truth William James 1876

Christ as the life, but there is a side of Christ especially for the student: "I am the truth," and every student ought to be a truth-lover and a truth-seeker for Christ's sake.

The Greatest Thing In the World and Other Addresses Henry Drummond 1874

Whom Apollo the truth-lover, the master of time, and Vulcan the father of the gods hath chosen above others by reason of his courage.

The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Ammianus Marcellinus 1851