Quotes About Authenticity

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.

But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.

Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

I've been the type of guy, I've always been very forthcoming with how I feel. And that it doesn't make you less of a man to like go and be like, 'This is how I feel about you. This is the truth.'

I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man.

I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man.

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.