Quotes About Authenticity

Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.

When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth.

I feel more comfortable being honest because I don't have to "remember" my answers. You never forget the truth! I just have to learn how much truth to give, that's my boundary. That's my new thing.

I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.

You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.

Acting is the absence of acting. It's believing in the truth of the moment you are creating.

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.

There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.

There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.

Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.

the true and the plausible are rarely the same.

How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.