Truth Quotes

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

40912 quotes

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"Repetition creates familiarity, and familiarity creates the illusion of truth."
Amos Tversky
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"The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a reliable guide to the truth of those beliefs."
Daniel Kahneman
D
"People are not easilyled to transform their beliefs."
Daniel Kahneman
D
"We often mistake fluency of thought for truth."
Daniel Kahneman
D
"We see correlations and assume causation far too readily."
Daniel Kahneman
D
"People are much more likely to believe a statement if they have repeated it several times."
Daniel Kahneman
D
"We have a remarkable ability to ignore information that doesn't fit our worldview."
Daniel Kahneman
D
"Confirmation bias is perhaps the most consequential of all cognitive biases."
Daniel Kahneman
D
"Memory is not a recording but a reconstruction of the past."
Daniel Kahneman
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"There is nothing so delightful as the hearing or the speaking of truth."
Harriet Martineau
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"I write what I think; I think what I believe is true."
Harriet Martineau
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"The beauty of truth is that it needs no embellishment."
Harriet Martineau
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"The pursuit of truth requires intellectual courage."
Harriet Martineau
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"Authenticity comes from emotional honesty."
Daniel Goleman
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"A life well-lived is one where intention and action are aligned."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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"Authentic well-being comes from living in accordance with your values and strengths."
Martin Seligman
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"Virtue is not something you have - it's something you practice and cultivate."
Christopher Peterson
C
"Truth requires courage because it often challenges our comfortable assumptions."
Christopher Peterson
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"Personal integrity means doing the right thing even when no one is watching."
Roy Baumeister
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"Truth will set you free, but first it will make you uncomfortable."
Barbara Fredrickson
B
"Living truthfully is the path to freedom."
Barbara Fredrickson
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"Intuition is recognition, but we don't always recognize what we think we recognize."
Amos Tversky
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"Memory is not a recording device; it is a storytelling device."
Amos Tversky
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"We are slaves to our emotions, dressed up as rational actors."
Amos Tversky
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"Survivorship bias blinds us to the vast majority of failures."
Amos Tversky
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"The backfire effect shows that correction of misinformation can actually entrench false beliefs."
Amos Tversky
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"We predict our own behavior about as well as we predict others'."
Amos Tversky
A
"We are all unreliable narrators of our own lives."
Amos Tversky
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"We cannot escape our nature, but we can understand it."
Amos Tversky
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"The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a reliable guide to the truth of those beliefs."
Daniel Kahneman