Quotes about Authenticity
Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
— Anonymous
Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
— Joseph Addison
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
— Thomas Merton
You can tell German wine from vinegar ... by the label.
— Mark Twain
There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.
— Andrew Jackson
Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
— George Washington
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
— Francis de Sales
Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, 100 things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
— Samuel Johnson
It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from.
— Tony Hale
The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
— Abraham Lincoln