Quotes About Authenticity

People can sense you lying on the camera, they can smell it. They know when you're not telling the truth. Then it does become reality-show bullshit.

The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.

I'd choose truth over cake but I'd try to find a way to get both to be honest.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.

My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

Bravery shows up in everyday life when people have the courage to live their truth, their vision and their dreams.

And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.

Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.

Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.

Fame is what you have taken, / Character's what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.

I'll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

Veracity is the heart of morality.

Truth is the best defense.

I believe the American people are looking for someone to speak the truth.

There can be no mercy without truth.

Truth matters. Everything we can do to find, feed, and strengthen it is worth the effort.

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

These pages are not my confession; they're my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.

Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.