Dallas Willard Quotes

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be.

Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Everybody's out there trying to be somebody else. Even the good guy's trying to be the bad guy, you know? Just be yourself, man. I think that works.

Authenticity can't be replicated or faked. You're either real or you're not.

I am not someone who can be fooled by praise at all. In fact, I quickly sniff out people who are being fake with me. It doesn't go unnoticed with me.

People aren't suckers. Some are, perhaps. But most people inside know when we're being lied to.

There's a lot of shiny, pretty objects out there that when you actually touch them, they just fall apart. And it's like, you need to be authentic, you need to be yourself.

Any view of things that is not strange, is false.

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

More often than not, things and people are as they appear.

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.