Quotes about Truth
The Man of Science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and love it in his solitude: the Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion.
— William Wordsworth
Oh, be wise, thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.
— William Wordsworth
Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.
— Winston Churchill
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
— Winston Churchill
You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.
— Winston Churchill
Right is more precious than peace.
— Woodrow Wilson
If a man is a fool, the best thing is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
— Woodrow Wilson
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
— David Ogilvy
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
— David Ogilvy
I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.
— David Ogilvy
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.
— David Ogilvy
The trouble with market research is that people don't think what they feel, they don't say what they think and they don't do what they say.
— David Ogilvy