We are confounded by many who teach that only they speak the truth and that others propound false views. It seems to us very often that is all they teach: they are right; everyone else is wrong.
Give us certainty, O Enlightened One.

And on that occasion the Buddha said to them:

Do not accept anything until you have examined it.

It is not the truth because it has been repeated for long and often; it is not the truth because it seems so or because it is so apparent; it is not the truth because everyone has accepted it and people of authority and
the famous and the learned say so; it is not the truth because it is in this text or in that text or because it is taught by the teacher.

Test it and examine the truth.

If there is a teaching that shall be conducive to one moving away from greed, hate and delusion; and that shall not lead one to lies,
taking of life, theft, and covetousness but that shall lead to one’s happiness and cause one to seek the happiness of others, let not that confound you.

Thus can you recognize truth.