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Quotes About Authenticity

Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.
~ Multatuli
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux
Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.
~ Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
If you really want to feel the life, use not your umbrella! Touch the truth directly!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
~ Plato
Truth out of season was sourer than strawberries at Christmas time.
~ Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
~ Aristotle
We live in a real world. Come back to it.
~ Natalie Portman
They're only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.
~ George Carlin
To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor.
~ Judith Malina
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.
~ William S. Burroughs
Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.
~ Shirley MacLaine
People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
~ Ron White
Someone who is elated with wine speaks the truth on all subjects, even without meaning to. In the same way, anyone who is inebriated with the spirit of penitence will never be able to tell lies.
~ John Climacus
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.
~ Adrian Rogers
Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.
~ Ian Mckellen
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
~ James Russell Lowell
Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
~ David Mamet
Where there is no truth there is no grace.
~ Nachman of Breslov
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
~ Khalil Gibran
No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!
~ Anton Szandor LaVey