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Quotes About Authenticity

One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.
~ Agatha Christie
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
~ Vivien Leigh
A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
~ J. I. Packer
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
~ Adrienne Rich
Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.
~ Peter Guber
Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.
~ George Armstrong Custer
Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.
~ Yoko Ono
Know that Truth sees through bullshit. So if you can't handle looking at Truth, you must be a Devil's culprit.
~ Suzy Kassem
There aint no substitute for the truth, either it is or it isnt. You see the truth it needs no proof, either it is or it isnt. And you know the truth by the way you feel.
~ India.Arie
There is one thing I must tell you because I just found it to be a truth . . . You must always be yourself no matter what the price. It is the highest form of morality.
~ Candy Darling
When we can build community based on truth and authenticity, rather than masks, false perfection, and being phoney, we heal, connect, and thrive.
~ Lissa Rankin
The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.
~ Auguste Rodin
The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention.
~ Del Close
Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.
~ Knut Hamsun
Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.
~ Michael Jackson
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
~ Frederick Douglass
Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.
~ Barbara Stanwyck
Most people think they are searching for truth when they are really searching for love
~ Harold Klemp
I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.
~ Sigmund Freud
Truth is always straightforward.
~ Sophocles
Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.
~ Nadia Boulanger