Quotes About Authenticity

Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that it's the truth." -Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Love is not a higher quality than truth.

When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.

Truth brings bliss, truth brings celebration.

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

A system-grinder hates the truth.

When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.

You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.

Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

It was real for me and that's all that matters.

That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.

VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)

The truth will only be told over a career.

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

With Twitter, you just want to make people laugh in their meeting; on stage, people have paid for their tickets with their hard-earned money, so I owe them the truth as I experience it.

The point is not to give people a break. The point is to tell all the truth you can bear about them and not despise them, not to be a kumbaya kind of guy.

The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

If it comes from Tom Hauser, it's the truth.