“Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.”

OK, maybe

It is a more worthy thing to be searching for the truth than claiming to know the truth

The answer is to question...

Free yourself from what?

'The truth will set you free' -- what truth? and free from what? Well, chase after it and you will see. The truth liberates us from lies and the obligation required to prop them up. We may still not 'capture' the truth, but we manage to free ourselves from that which is not true yet is masked as truth.

Not even close.

The truth will set you free, or so they say.