Sincerity Quotes - Page 27

• Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Religious, Children, Thinking

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.149

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• Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.

  William Henry Ashley

  Government, Friendly, Degrees

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• And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.

  Erich von Stroheim

  Self, Rumor, Characterization

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• My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.

  C. Everett Koop

  Jobs, Children, Philadelphia

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• When we have intelligence resulting from sincerity, this condition is to be ascribed to nature; when we have sincerity resulting from intelligence, this condition is to be ascribed to instruction. But given the sincerity, and there shall be the intelligence; given the intelligence, and there shall be the sincerity.

  Confucius

  Instruction, Given, Conditions

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Simplicity, Style, Orderliness

  william strunk, jr. (1959). “the elements of style”

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• We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.

  Ai Weiwei

  War, Expression, Ignorant

  "Why I'll Stay Away From the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics". www.theguardian.com. August 07, 2008.

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• In the Han Dynasty, Xiang
  Yu was very brave and won
  many battles, but in the end
  he failed. Treat people with
  sincerity and build a good
  organization. Otherwise, it
  doesn’t matter how famous
  or how capable you are.

  Li Ka-shing

  Organization, People, Brave

  "On Corporate Strategy". Shantou University Business School Economic Forum, www.lksf.org. May 11, 2001.

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• No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.

  Rebecca West

  Writing, Vitality, Fiction

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• Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

  Howard Nemerov

  Religious, War, Science

  Howard Nemerov (1978). “Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays”

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• The way to test a man's sincerity is to serve him a bad cup of coffee. If he doesn't comment, he is not to be trusted.

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Wisdom, Coffee, Men

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