Quotes About Authenticity

I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Face the truth or the truth will face you!

I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.

Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.

In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.

People are always afraid of the truth.

Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that self-torture can stop!

Love is not always about 'everything's fine'…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn't always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.

I so believe in the fact that we are somehow born to love the truth

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

Truth lies at the confluence of independent streams of evidence.

To understand the truth is to do the truth.

Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.