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Quotes About Authenticity

Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.
~ Elif Safak
Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.
~ Oprah Winfrey
If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
This is my truth, tell me yours.
~ Aneurin Bevan
Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.
~ Clement Greenberg
The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
~ William Hazlitt
Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.
~ Luther Standing Bear
A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.
~ Neville Cardus
The writer's job is to tell the truth.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth.
~ Bob Arum
I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.
~ Kevin O'Leary
Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.
~ Harry Frankfurt
Self-examination is the process of accountability to your soul...It is far better to "become" your truth than to speak your truth. Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth.
~ Caroline Myss
I'm not perfect, but I'm the truth.
~ Ron Killings
The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.
~ Harlan Coben
Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.
~ Austin O'Malley
If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'
~ Randy Pausch
The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.
~ James Hollis
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
~ Voltaire
Country music is three chords and the truth.
~ Harlan Howard
Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth
~ Socrates