Sincerity Quotes - Page 26

• In all of its vulnerability, profound sincerity does, in its relationship to knowledge, find its way.

  John de Ruiter

  Profound, Doe, Way

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• To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Mean, Practicals, Life Means

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• Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Odds, Minorities, Gains

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1677, Manonmani Publishers

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• In painting, the key is not taking myself seriously to the point where it kills sincerity.

  Scott Avett

  Keys, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a pacifist. He opposed conscription because it deprived the citizen of the right to decide for himself whether or not to join in the fight. Keynes was exempt as a civil servant from conscription; so there is no need to question his sincerity. Apparently his belief in the rights of the individual against a majority of his compatriots was very strong indeed.

  Mancur Olson

  Strong, Attitude, War

  Mancur OLSON (2009). “The Logic of Collective Action”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

  Edmund White

  Thinking, Technique, Sole

  The Review of Contemporary Fiction Intreview, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1996.

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• To explore the unknown and the familiar, distant and near and to record in detail with the eyes of a child, any beauty, (of the flesh or otherwise) horror, irony, traces of utopia or Hell. Select your team with care, but when in doubt, take on some new crew and give them a chance. But avoid at all costs fluctuations of sincerity with your best people.

  Dan Eldon

  Children, Team, Eye

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• The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.

  Alma Gluck

  Song, Art, Break Through

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• The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.

  Thaksin Shinawatra

  Apology, Government, Firsts

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• Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life.

  Baba Hari Dass

  Heart, Humility, Winning

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• Sincerity does not only complete the self; it is the means by which all things are completed. As the self is completed, there is human-heartedness; as things are completed, there is wisdom. This is the virtue of one’s character, and the Way of joining the internal and external. Thus, when we use this, everything is correct.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Character, Mean, Self

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2012). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

  Jean-Henri Fabre

  Ignorance, Perfect, Feelings

  Jean-Henri Fabre (1911). “Souvenirs Entomologiques”, London : A. and C. Black

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• The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention.

  Umar

  Prayer, Intention, Efficacy

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• The Way of a Warrior is based on humanity, love, and sincerity; the heart of martial valor is true bravery, wisdom, love, and friendship. Emphasis on the physical aspects of warriorship is futile, for the power of the body is always limited.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Heart, Warrior, Bravery

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.89, Shambhala Publications

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• So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  May, Lasts, Faces

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• At all costs we should avoid considering our love of God to be superior to the love of the other for GodLet us love God and leave it for Him to decide on the intensity and sincerity of our loves, as well as of our differing views of Him

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Views, Our Love, Cost

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• Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.

  Umar

  Prayer, Fasting, Looks

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• Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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• We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  School, Hard Work, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.385, Modern Library

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• I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowing, Mood, Insincere

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.137, University of Missouri Press

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• If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mood, Prophet, Certificates

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

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• I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Simple, Land

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

  Ben Lerner

  Cities, Would Be, Way

  Ben Lerner (2014). “10:04: A Novel”, p.4, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• On the justice of the cause of Prince Edouard, adding insurances of greatest sincerity to help it and support it and give him on all occasions of the marks of the same feelings as I have for the King his father.

  Henry Benedict Stuart

  Kings, Father, Giving

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• I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Funny, Writing, Commitment

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