Sincerity Quotes - page 6

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. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Though sincerity and confidence have many points of resemblance, they have yet many points of difference. Sincerity is an openness of heart, which shows us what we are, a love of truth, a dislike to deception, a wish to compensate our faults and to lessen them by the merit of confessing them. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
He is the most gentle-looking and amiable of men. Every word and look indicate sincerity of heart, even to guilelessness. View quote
William H. Seward
To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth. He has only to look into a human face in order to read there the soul within - not a feature deceives him; hypocrisy is as transparent as sincerity - the line of a forehead, the least lifting of a brow, the flash of an eye, reveal to him all the secrets of a heart. View quote
Auguste Rodin
In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred even when it takes for a subject the worst excesses of desire; since it has in view only the sincerity of observation, it cannot debase itself. A true work of art is always noble, even when it translates the stirrings of the brute, for at that moment, the artist who has produced it had as his only objective, the most conscientious rendering possible of the impression he has felt. View quote
Auguste Rodin
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity. View quote
George Oppen
A work will be treated as art within a certain circle – that is, within the circle of let's say ten thousand people. There are about ten thousand in the world today who are prepared to take it on face value if you present anything to them as art, they deal with it straight on as art and tell you whether it stimulates them, moves them, or not. Some of them might even buy it.. .Anyway, it seems to me that within that ring of ten thousand, fortunately, that sincerity issue [the issue: is something art or not] is over. The reason why that issue failed is that it became obvious no one would live a life of art, a life of poverty, just to pull somebody's legs. In other words, there were compensating sacrifices for what people did. View quote
Carl Andre
The one who performs a deed and his heart does not believe in that deed, Allah will not accept any of his practices - but that it be along with the sincerity of intention. View quote
Ali al-Hadi
Well, the fact that a person such as me, of my ilk, who deemed the opposing gang as an eternal enemy, it wasn't hard for people to believe me, because they knew where I stood. There were no clandestine or latent messages. Everybody knew where I stood. And for me to come out and say that what we were doing was wrong, it was believable. That's why people didn't – or at least the gang members didn't discredit my propensity and my alacrity for peace. That's why I was embraced with sincerity by those who I knew and those I didn't know on both sides of the fence. (Stanley Williams)
Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic. View quote
Douglas Coupland
My estimate of American character has improved, contrary to my expectations, by this visit...I find myself in love with their intelligence, their sincerity, and the decorous self-respect that actuates all classes. The very genius of activity seems to have found its fit abode in the souls of this restless and energetic race. They have not, ‘tis true, the force of Englishmen in personal weight or strength, but they have compensated for this deficiency by quickening the momentum of their enterprises. All is in favour of celerity of action and the saving of time. Speed, speed, speed, is the motto that is stamped in the form of their ships and steamboats, in the breed of their horses, and the light construction of their wagons and carts: and in the ten thousand contrivances that are met with here, whether for the abridging of the labour of months or minutes, whether a high-pressure engine or a patent boot-jack. All is done in pursuit of one common object, the economy of time. View quote
Richard Cobden
For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity. View quote
George Orwell
Children and fools speak the truth; and somehow they find happiness in their sincerity. View quote
Will Durant
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood-the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it. View quote
Rafael Sabatini
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. View quote
Albert Camus
"It makes her rather alarming,” I said. "Sincerity has that effect,” said Miss Marple. View quote
Agatha Christie
Is it not possible that an unruly head of hair, an infectious smile, eyes that seem remarkable for the depths of their sincerity, a cultivated air of authority, may attract huge television audiences regardless of the violence that may be done to truth or objectivity? View quote
Edward R. Murrow
We live far enough away from those times of test and trial to know that sincerity and honesty did not all lie on either side. We know the conflicts of loyalties, traditions, ancestry, and interest which drew men to one side and the other. I doubt if there ever was another so great and elemental a conflict from which men emerged with so much of mutual respect, with so little of bitterness and lingering hostility. The struggle brought the whole Nation at last to see that its only assurance was in unity. United, it could go its way in all security; divided, both sections becoming the prey of jealousy and intrigue, would have dissipated all the power they now have for good in the world. (Calvin Coolidge)
My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other? View quote
Jane Austen
Europe, you don't want us because the majority of our population are Muslim ... We knew it but we tried to show our sincerity. View quote
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do. View quote
Bruce Fairchild Barton
And a writer observed, "We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity," and I know just the kind of people that writer had in mind when he praised Harry Truman. View quote
Sarah Palin