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Quotes About Authenticity

My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.
~ Toni Cade Bambara
We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch.
~ Grace Napolitano
Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.
~ Ally Carter, Heist Society
The truth will make you odd.
~ Judy Blume
One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward
~ Gay Hendricks
Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful.
~ Jerry Hall
If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies.
~ R. D. Laing
Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.
~ Robert Barron
In Witchcraft, each of us must reveal our own truth.
~ Starhawk
There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.
~ June Jordan
I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.
~ Alison Krauss
A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.
~ Unknown
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Listen to my story and everything will come out true
~ Bessie Smith
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
~ Georges Braque
Truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the heart is saying another.
~ Catherine Marshall
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.
~ A.W. Tozer
If you speak the truth, you spoil the game.
~ Mike Caro
I go to sleep happy. I wake up excited because I give the truth.
~ Lil B
Do you love the truth more than you need to be loved, or do you need to be loved more than you love the truth?
~ Gary Zukav