Sincerity Quotes - Page 12

• I see the relationship sincerity/humor differently. Instead of seeing a balance between them, I see them more inextricably linked, as if one is the hard candy shell that gives to the other, or one is the apparition, the ghost-image that invokes the other.

  Alex Lemon

  Giving, Balance, Shells

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.

  David Bowie

  Song, Stars, Distance

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

  Jean Rostand

  Funny, Pessimism, Cynicism

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• But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity

  G. B. Caird

  Vices, Demonic, Humans

  George Bradford Caird, G. B. Caird, L. D. Hurst (1995). “New Testament Theology”, p.147, Oxford University Press

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• It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.

  George Henry Lewes

  Art, Men, Expression

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Men, May

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• To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Views, Cheerful

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.683, Xist Publishing

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• Sincerity is all that counts. It's a widespread modern heresy. Think again. Bolsheviks are sincere. Fascists are sincere. Lunatics are sincere. People who believe the earth is flat are sincere. They can't all be right. Better make certain that you've got something to be sincere about and with.

  Tom Driberg

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Tom Driberg (1949). “Colonnade: 1937-1947”, London, Pilot Press [1949]

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• Real affection comes from the face. Those political leaders, when they meet, they are always hugging, but not very genuine. Deep, sincerity comes from face and eye.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Eye, Leader

  Source: www.opti-mystical.com

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• The Force which has to be called down from above must be pure and quiet because there are all kinds of forces - it will not do to call them all. And one must have sincerity.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Quiet, Kind, Force

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• The problem with Salafis is that they are religiously sincere and politically naïve. And they allow themselves to be supported by people who have no religious sincerity but who are politically very smart, especially when it comes to their economic interests.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Religious, Smart, People

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• When you meet dishonest people, move them with sincerity. When you meet violent people, affect them with gentility. When you meet warped people, inspire them with justice. Then the whole world enters your forge.

  Zicheng Hong

  Moving, People, Justice

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• Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Mark

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt (p. 596-97), Pensées Diverses, No. 372. Gilbert's ed. (1857), Volume I, p. 475, 1922.

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• When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.

  Juvenal

  World, Assurance, Mistaken

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• Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.

  Andre Maurois

  Glasses, Diamond, Prudence

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• I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.

  Brett Dennen

  Song, Writing, Heart

  Source: www.gigslutz.co.uk

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• God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.

  Thomas Watson

  Thanksgiving, Religious, Heart

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good”, p.18, Ravenio Books

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• One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Inspirational, Respect, Effective Listening

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• Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Foundation, Frost

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.234, Xist Publishing

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• When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Way, Causes, Appearance

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• I never find sincerity offensive... so, be sincere.

  Christopher Meloni

  Offensive, Sincere

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

  Ezra Pound

  Technique, Tests, Inferiors

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• If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Lying, Heart, Hypocrisy

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.29, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Sanity, soundness, and sincerity, of which gleams and strains can still be found in the human brain under powerful microscopes, flourish only in a culture of clarification, which is now becoming harder and harder to detect with the naked eye.

  James Thurber

  Powerful, Eye, Brain

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• This past year, we received our second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Informational Series. While we'd all like to win, I can say with utmost sincerity that it mattered more to me that we got noticed than whether or not we win.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Winning, Past, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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