Sincerity Quotes - Page 5

To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.

The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.

Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.

The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.

In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos.

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.

Teach French and unteach sincerity.

Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.

With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really — except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

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.

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.

It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.

The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.

It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.

To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means.