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Quotes About Authenticity

Be honest with yourself; set the alarm for the time the Real You will get up, not the Ambitious You, because the Ambitious You doesn't really exist.
~ Laurie Notaro
Madam, there is no treachery in the truth. There may be pain, but to face honestly all possible conclusions formed by a set of facts is the noblest route possible for a human being." Holmes could be surprisingly empathetic at times
~ Laurie R. King
Madam, there is no treachery in the truth. There may be pain, but to face honestly all possible conclusions formed by a set of facts is the noblest route possible for a human being.
~ Laurie R. King
any departure from reality that could easily be avoided ought to be avoided.
~ Lawrence Block
If you are lying, you have built your lie on true foundations.
~ Lawrence Block
Now I can't say I approve of counterfeit stamps. But it's hard for me to work up a lot of indignation at a forger who's been dead for the better part of a century. I wouldn't want to buy a fake sold as a genuine stamp, or an official reprint under the illusion that it's an original, but in certain cases and at the right price any of these oddities might find a welcome in my collection. They all make the philatelic universe even more interesting.
~ Lawrence Block
Most people lie and let life play upon them like the tepid discharges of a douche-bag.
~ Lawrence Durell
Balthazar sighed and said Truth naked and unashamed. That's a splendid phrase. But we always see her as she seems, never as she is. Each man has his own interpretation.
~ Lawrence Durrell
If one falls in love with a mask when one is masked oneself… which of you will first have the courage to raise it?
~ Lawrence Durrell
Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.
~ Willow Smith
How far must you go to gain respect? Um... Well, it's kind of simple: just remain your own. Or you'll be crazy sad and alone.
~ Q-Tip
The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.
~ Octavian Paler
It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.
~ Fred Rogers
The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
~ Khalil Gibran
It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.
~ David Bowie
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
~ Jean Baudrillard
He'd come back, all open and helpless, and I suppose that's what won her around in the end. But it was so sad, because it was being himself that he found so difficult to cope with.
~ Melvin Burgess
If i sad, I'm always search the mirror, because it never laugh when i cry
~ Greyson Chance
I know amazing people in fashion who are anything but fake. They are very real and very sensitive. They are happy and sad. They are loyal friends.
~ Alber Elbaz
I would choose to live a century in a dark room instead of hanging out with fake friends.
~ Sher E Yazdan
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
~ Isaac Newton
There is no [...] higher than the truth.
~ H. P. Blavatsky
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.
~ Richard P. Feynman
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
~ Richard Feynman