Sincerity Quotes - Page 19

• Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sides, Bores, Seriousness

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.9, OUP Oxford

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• The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Ideas, Intellectual

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Confused, Worship, Weak

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• The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.

  William Hazlitt

  Honesty, People, Office

  "Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims". Book by William Hazlitt. No. 43, 1823.

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• The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Law, One Day

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.218

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• There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.

  William Ernest Henley

  Character, Men, Two

  William Ernest Henley (1906). “Views and Reviews: Essays in Appreciation: Literature”

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• A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Eye, Double Minded, Duplicity

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.

  Ramakrishna

  Realizing, Earnestness

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• I'm not saying - in any way - that Donald Driver is lying or lacking sincerity. But I trust my reporting.

  Jeff Pearlman

  Lying, Way, Lacking

  Source: lombardiave.com

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• I spent a lot of time in India with my father. I don't know all about their religion. But I know they love God. And I don't know. I've seen their sincerity.

  Joel Osteen

  Father, India, God Love

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. June 20, 2005.

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• In times of upheaval, people wish for nothing more than composure and sincerity.

  Martin Schulz

  People, Wish, Upheaval

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sincerity is the most important thing in acting. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

  Unknown

  Fake, Important, Acting

  Source: www.politico.com

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• It's Richard Kelly's brilliance, because he led me to Donnie Darko performance. He wanted sincerity, he didn't want it to be one color, and he made me go vulnerable, and I think that's why it works. When you can get all those different colors and levels in one line. Time Out New York voted it "Best Line Of The Year" - which is crazy, because how many words is it? "Sometimes. I. Doubt. Your. Commitment. To. Sparkle. Motion." Eight words. It's crazy.

  Beth Grant

  Crazy, Commitment, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Loyalty saves us from the self-advantaging compromising of important relations - such as friendship, marital and professional commitments, group memberships, and so on. But as the Aristotelians would put it, its expression requires phronesis - wisdom not to allow it to compromise other important virtues ,there is something to the ancient doctrine of the unity of the virtues. I believe that is true of all virtues, but especially of the executive virtues - such as industriousness, sincerity, conscientiousness, and courage - which may become detached from substantive goods.

  John Kleinig

  Loyalty, Believe, Commitment

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In a way, my father [Pablo Escobar] reached a certain degree of sincerity that I became to know and I would even say appreciate because I would have rather had my father treat me like this rather than as an idiot that would never have any idea about what was happening around us.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Ideas, Appreciate

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• I honestly think that my sincerity lies with my country and each and every individual who knows me will agree with this fact.

  Shahid Afridi

  Country, Lying, Thinking

  Source: www.vogueamour.com

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• It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  People, Trying, Tasks

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• When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Believe, Successful, Doubt

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• The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.

  Gertrude Stein

  Believe, Government, Interesting

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.61, Random House

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• Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity. Everyone, we're assured, is a poet. Writing poetry is good for us. It expresses our inmost feelings, which is wholesome. Reading other people's poems is pointless since those aren't our own inmost feelings.

  Barbara Holland

  Art, Reading, Writing

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• Much brass has been sounded and many cymbals tinkled in the name of advertising; but the advertisements which persuade people to act are written by men who have an abiding respect for the intelligence of their readers, and a deep sincerity regarding the merits of the goods they have to sell.

  Bruce Barton

  Men, Names, People

  "The Man Nobody Knows". Book by Bruce Fairchild Barton. Chapter 5: "His Advertisements", 1925.

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• The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

  Samuel Smiles

  Politeness, Truest

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.238

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• Well, the problem is the freedom that the sport gives you without getting to politics. Unfortunately, you cannot now separate it because people cannot be truthful; they have to be politically correct. There's no more sincerity. What we had before was freedom of speech and freedom of expression without judgement. That's why I don't get into politics.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Sports, People, Giving

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 23, 2014.

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• I really strongly feel that when you approach a drama, you have to approach it with energy, honesty, sincerity, and absolute commitment, or don't do it.

  David Gordon Green

  Honesty, Drama, Commitment

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You have to set your own boundaries. We all do. You have to self-check. At the same time, the transparency is liberating. It is so much easier than screening every little thing you do and say. There's got to be some fluidity to self-expression without constantly editing things. The older I get, the more confident I feel in that. The filters are just flung away... lets face it, filters interrupt the flow of sincerity. If you're embarrassed about something you've done, then just say it.

  Shania Twain

  Done, Little Things, Boundaries

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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