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Quotes About Authenticity

History is not history unless it is the truth.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Do you want to know the truth, or see me hit a few dingers?
~ Mark McGwire
Ultimately photography is about who you are. It's the truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit.
~ Leonard Freed
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
~ Blaise Pascal
I want people to know they don't have to live their lives in a permanent 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' existence. Truth is a powerful tool.
~ E. Lynn Harris
You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.
~ Richard Hugo
Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.
~ James Cagney
The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.
~ Geri Halliwell
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
~ George Berkeley
A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
~ Ammianus Marcellinus
Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.
~ Alan Rudolph
I hate when things are sugar-coated. I'd rather have the ugliest truth than the best lie.
~ Chloe Grace Moretz
Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating.
~ David Ogilvy
Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.
~ Ken Loach
To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.
~ A. H. Almaas
Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.
~ Elissa Schappell
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Truth is a great flirt.
~ Franz Liszt
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.
~ David Mitchell
Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.
~ Mahlon Hoagland
Only three types of people tell the truth: Kids, the drunk, and the angry.
~ Elizabeth Reyes
Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith