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Quotes About Authenticity

Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.
~ Lenny Bruce
Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.
~ Socrates
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.
~ Giuseppe Verdi
Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
~ Edward R. Murrow
Total truth is necessary. You must live by what you say.
~ Neem Karoli Baba
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
~ William Sloane Coffin
You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
~ Charles Colson
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
~ Virginia Woolf
If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.
~ J. Reuben Clark
Love has nothing to do with another person. Love is Truth. Love is Beauty. Love is Self. To know yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to love.
~ Gangaji
Please don't lie to me,unless,you're sure I'll never find out the truth.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.
~ Gregg Allman
An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
~ Anthony Trollope
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.
~ Julian Assange
The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.
~ Ken Wilber
We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
~ Nikki Giovanni
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
~ Albert Camus
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
~ Emily Dickinson
Telling the truth is always revolutionary
~ Antonio Gramsci
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.
~ Willie Nelson