Quotes about Authenticity

When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are.

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.

I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger, and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece, nor fear that any honest thread, or straighter ste.

It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.