Quotes about Authenticity
I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.
- John Updike
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
- Oscar Wilde
No man knows himself as an original.
- Washington Allston
It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
- William Barclay
The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.
- St. Augustine
The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.
- Thomas Merton
Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.
- Charles Spurgeon
It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.
- Abraham Lincoln
Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.
- AW Tozer
An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.
- AW Tozer