Quotes About Authenticity

Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.

Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one

We cannot really think in one way and act in another...

Nothin' wrong with sentiment, if it's what you truly feel. That's the trouble with folks, they're afraid to show what's inside 'em.

Many people think it is enough to bring their bodies to the assembly, but never look at their hearts. They satisfy themselves that they have been at church, though they have not been with God there.

The best mirror is not that which is most gilded, but that which shows the truest face.

men are not good in truth when they are good by halves.

The hypocrite is fair to look on. He has a devout eye, but a hollow heart. But he who is sincere, his inside is his best side!

Of the fifteen letters ascribed to Ignatius (Bishop of Antioch after 69 A. D.), eight have been rejected by Christian writers as being forgeries, having no authority whatever. "The remaining seven epistles were accounted genuine by most critics, although disputed by some, previous to the discoveries of Mr. Cureton, which have shaken, and indeed almost wholly destroyed the credit and authenticity of all alike." [436:3]

the Gospels were not written by the persons whose names they bear, that they were written many years after the time these men are said to have lived, and that they are full of interpolations and errors. The first that we know of the four gospels is at the time of Irenæus, who, in the second century, intimates that he had received four gospels, as authentic scriptures. This pious forger was probably the author of the fourth, as we shall presently see.

I think that it can be assumed that no adults are ever really 'shocked' - that being shocked is always a pose.

I have long noticed that people who talk to those closest to them only about what they eat, what they wear, the money they make, the trip they will or will not take next week—such people are of two sorts. They either have no inner life, or their inner life is painful to them, is beset with regret or fear.

The silence of the three of them had made a little kernel of sense in a world of boasting, self-excuse and rhetoric.

Under all that sunny generosity of Wilder's, who's really there? What's under that mask? Is there a mask? Theater is the place of masks. Do the three

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

She knew that she had taken the easy way out, that she had let the steam escape from the boiling pot of her emotions. What she had meant to say was not "I love you" at all. What she had wanted to say was "I love life," a self-declaration as naked and real and authentic as an X-ray.

Unlike most politicians who follow their audience, (Robert) Kennedy tried to lead his.

the truth is not supposed to free you from the truth, just from everything else

This new Eva, the free Eva, was tired of being rattled by life. How long had she lived being too terrified to show her real self? There was power in showing the messiness of her life and what it took to hold it together.

Go." "Can't." Eva shook her head. "It'd require breaking myself open." "Why don't you want to?" "It's a mess in there," she said hollowly. He wondered when the last time she'd fallen apart in front of someone was. "But that's the good stuff," he insisted. "It's you.

Always be yourself. Unless you can be me. Then always be me.' And here's another one…

Listen. Caring about things doesn't make you soft. It makes you alive.

Now, I never got married. No, no, no, I ain't one of those funny ladies. I just won't fold myself up tiny so as not to put off no man.

Is Eight based on a real person? You describe her so intimately. It's like I'm peeking in on something I shouldn't see." "Do you think Eight's real?" "Definitely," she said, nodding. "Then she is." "That's not an answer." "I know." He grinned.