SINCERITY QUOTES II

quotations about sincerity

Now there's two ways we can do this, keep it real or front.

MARY J. BLIGE

"Sincerity"


Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom, and an excellent instrument for the speedy dispatch of business; it creates confidence in those we have to deal with, saves the labor of many inquiries, and brings things to an issue in few words; it is like traveling in a plain beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's ends than bye-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

JOHN TILLOTSON

The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson

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Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.

LORD BYRON

letter, May 29, 1823

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Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

DANIEL SCHORR

International Herald Tribune, May 18, 1992

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We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

G. K. CHESTERTON

Heretics

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One who is very variable cannot be very sincere; today's truth is tomorrow's falsehood.

MADAME SWETCHINE

The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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A habit of sincerity in acknowledging faults is a guard against committing them.

GOOLD BROWN

The First Lines of English Grammar: Being a Brief Abstract of the Author's Larger Work


Sincerity's the best gimmick. Remember that.

THE LEMONHEADS

"Die Right Now"


As her technique became sounder, sincerity became less necessary.

THORNTON WILDER

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

THOMAS CARLYLE

Sartor Resartus

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Frank sincerity is a quality much extolled among men and pleasing to every one, while simulation, on the contrary, is detested and condemned. Yet for a man's self, simulation is of the two by far the more useful; sincerity tending rather to the interest of others. But since it cannot be denied that it is not a fine thing to deceive, I would commend him whose conduct is as a rule open and straightforward, and who uses simulation only in matters of the gravest importance and such as very seldom occur; for in this way he will gain a name for honesty and sincerity, and with it the advantages attaching to these qualities. At the same time, when, in any extreme emergency, he resorts to simulation, he will draw all the greater advantage from it, because from his reputation for plain dealing his artifice will blind men more.

FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI

Counsels and Reflections


Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

attributed, Presidential Wit from Washington to Johnson

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

CONFUCIUS

The Analects

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I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one's convictions to frequent scrutiny.

CHRISTOPHER PHILLIPS

Socrates Cafe

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The tongue of the sincere is rooted in his heart; hypocrisy and deceit have no place in his words.

ROBERT DODSLEY

The Economy of Human Life


In a world of fakery
Your touch of sincerity
I have come to depend upon

THE TURTLES

"Is It Any Wonder?"


Sincerity is the only thing that makes good schlock watchable.

DAN WICKLINE

"Is Marvel's Inhumans The Train Wreck It Appears To Be In The Media?", Bleeding Cool, August 7, 2017


Sincerity increases willingness to care.

TOBA BETA

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut


Where there is the greatest sincerity, there is the greatest humility; and where the least truth, there is the greatest pride.

ASEN NICHOLSON

attributed, Day's Collacon


Sincerity and honesty carries one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through; for nothing doth a man more real mischief in the world than to be suspected of too much craft; because every one stands upon his guard against him, and suspects plots and designs where there are none intended; insomuch that though he speaks with all the sincerity that is possible, yet nothing he saith can be believed.

EDWARD STILLINGFLEET

Fifty Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions