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Quotes About Authenticity

Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
~ David Deida
Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.
~ Gautama Buddha
When everything gets answered, it's fake.
~ Sean Penn
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
~ Graham Greene
All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.
~ Mark Twain
The trust that I once built has been betrayed. But I'd rather live tellin' the truth and be judged for my mistakes, than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised.
~ Macklemore
The language of truth is simple.
~ Euripides
Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.
~ William Shakespeare
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
~ Richard Bach
There are tears that shine like a smile, sobbing like a sunrise for the truth.
~ Jon Foreman
Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth
~ Bob Dylan
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
~ Ben Jonson
The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.
~ Vernon Howard
Truth is for the minority.
~ Baltasar Gracian
In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.
~ Ken Blanchard
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Be open. And then the truth follows.
~ Gangaji
I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.
~ Lisette Model
One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.
~ Bette Davis
There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths.
~ Marion Barry
Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
~ Faith Hill
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
~ Jonathan Swift
You cannot be happy unless you are serving the truth of your being, however that service looks.
~ Gangaji