Quotes about Truth

The secret is authenticity. The reason people fail is because they're pretending to be something they're not.

Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.