Quotes About Genuineness

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

It has the added advantage of being true.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

Truth dont require the aid ov elegant and high stepping words, tew express its force, or buty, it iz like water, tastes better out ov a wooden bucket, than it duz out ov a golden goblet.

I have often remarked that it is hardest of all to live with people who are untruthful and insincere. I can endure anything except that.

It's a bad sort of young lady who's only alive when she's being admired, and as soon as she's alone lets herself go altogether and finds no charm in anything - who's all for show, and nothing for herself.

I don't want to play at life" I said, "But to live.

I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

Psychologically healthy people generally seek to be genuine, which involves a commitment to internal and external consistency. Simply put, genuineness means that someone's behavior can be trusted as an accurate reflection of that person's inner beliefs and priorities.

She said that in writing anything, you must be perfectly honest.

Rather than being guided by images of how to be, people need to attend to how they actually are and to respect this.

That was magic for you, right? The thing about magic, the real kind: it didn't make excuses, and it was never funny.

When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits, it depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can't be real. It ought to be but it isn't. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn't say it.

I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.

If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actually having social responsibility, and they're kind of hiding behind it, that's kind of useless, or even worse.

I try to be me to the utmost.

I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain, or if you're afraid to play ugly. I would never fall for that.

As long as it feels valid to me and feels sincere, I'll do what I do under the moniker of Nine Inch Nails if it's appropriate. I would hate to think I would ever be in a position where I'm faking it to get a paycheck.

As I got older, I realized that my life experience, what I really had, was always going to be more valuable than what I pretended to have.

Truth was truth and anything else was fuckery.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both.

do it from the heart or not at all.