Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

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"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."
Sigmund Freud
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"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."
Sigmund Freud
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"The voice within each of us knows the truth."
Sigmund Freud
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"Don't take the easiest way when it's also the least true way."
Ivan Pavlov
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"Truth is not found in hasty conclusions but in meticulous observation."
Ivan Pavlov
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"I have found more truth in the behavior of dogs than in the speeches of politicians."
Ivan Pavlov
"Truth is not always born in the hospital; it can be conceived in the laboratory, nursed in the garden, and delivered in the field."
Edward Jenner
"I trust in the power of observation and the honesty of empirical evidence."
Edward Jenner
"I have learned to trust in the wisdom of observation more than the authority of tradition."
Edward Jenner
"In science, as in all things, integrity is the foundation upon which all else is built."
Edward Jenner
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"Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is."
Carl Jung
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"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."
Carl Jung
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"The opposites and their conflict can never be robbed of their reality and significance by any moral decree or philosophical argument."
Carl Jung
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"If you imagine someone who is honest to themselves, they cannot live in a society absolutely in line with their beliefs."
Carl Jung
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"In the psyche, every voice contains truth; the question is the proportion and balance of voices."
Carl Jung
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"The persona is the mask we wear in society, but it is not our true self."
Carl Jung
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"Betrayal often comes from those we love most because we allow them closest to our shadows."
Carl Jung
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"A secret withheld is a psychic poison that accumulates over time."
Carl Jung
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"Guilt arises when we deny our own nature and project it onto others."
Carl Jung
"The very first requirement is accuracy."
Florence Nightingale
"One cannot fight against an evil that one will not recognize."
Florence Nightingale
"The very first requirement is to act with integrity in all things."
Florence Nightingale
"A woman's voice is powerful when used in service of truth."
Florence Nightingale
"Truth is what remains consistent across different environmental contingencies."
B.F. Skinner
"The evidence for planetary self-regulation is overwhelming to anyone who looks carefully"
James Lovelock
"The most dangerous assumption is that technology can rescue us from the consequences of our actions"
James Lovelock
"The quest for eternal growth on a finite planet is ultimately doomed"
James Lovelock
"We must learn to live as if we are truly part of nature, because we are"
James Lovelock
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"There is no worse blindness than the refusal to see what one is capable of achieving."
Albert Bandura
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"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."
Sigmund Freud