Quotes About Authenticity

A man who parades his piety is one who, under an atheist king, would be an atheist.

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a Vizor and a Face.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

We are so used to disguise ourselves to others, that at last we disguise ourselves even to ourselves.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not.

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

The only good copies are those that point out the ridicule of bad originals.

If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.

We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.

A man should respect a man for who he is, not for the rank he wears

Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

I don't care about money.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.

We are real people with real feelings and we're not evil or mean. Take Ron for instance, he is one of the nicest guys you could ever meet and if you talked to him you'd see that instantly. I mean the guy is just super smart and super sweet and nice but nobody wants to talk about how goddamn normal we all are. We raise our kids and love our families and get our mail and wash our cars and do everything else that you or your wife do. It's really not as far out as people think.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guild is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

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

Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.