quotations about sincerity
Earnest sincerity is perhaps the most difficult thing to sell in our post-modern cultural landscape, seeing as how it can often be accused of cheesy schmaltz.
ISAAC SCOTT
"My Hero Academia: Why All Might Is The Superman We Deserve And The One We Need", Movie Pilot, June 12, 2017
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
MENCIUS
Works
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.
TOM DRIBERG
Colonnade: 1937-1947
Sincerity is the parent of truth.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
attributed, Day's Collacon
Sincerity is a high quality, but its virtues are only efficacious when discreetly applied. Human beings, at the best, are but bundles of prejudices and humours, which it will not do to cut through too abruptly, lest the ties which bind them to ourselves be also severed, and the friendship of years fall to pieces in a day. The prudent surgeon, at the same time that he exerts his skill to excise, is careful not to lacerate, lest the patient die of mortification. In order to be sincere, it is not necessary to say the whole of what we think: enough that we do not, for the sake of being agreeable, say that which we feel to be untrue. In our most intimate friends there are numerous failings which we have no right to point out, manifold weaknesses we must not make weaker by tearing; and although we are wise to look as deeply into a well as our perceptions will allow us, there may be a thousand little truths at the bottom which it would be cruel to fish up.
CHARLES WILLIAM DAY
The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos
Sincerity and plain dealing are conducive to the interest of mankind at large because they afford that ground of confidence and reasonable expectation which are essential to wisdom and virtue.
W. GODWIN
attributed, Day's Collacon
Now there's two ways we can do this, keep it real or front.
DMX
"Sincerity"
Be sincere with your compliments. Most people can tell the difference between sugar and saccharine.
E. C. MCKENZIE
14,000 Quips and Quotes: For Speakers, Writers, Editors, Preachers and Teachers
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.
EUGENE O'NEILL
The Hairy Ape
Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
EDWARD ALBEE
Wagner Literary Magazine, 1962
Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.
EIJI YOSHIKAWA
Taiko
Sincerity is admirable, but circumstances -- what the insincere call "reality" -- called for compromises.
MICHAEL HOFFMAN
"Meiji Restoration leader's lessons of sincerity", Japan Times, December 10, 2016
The sincerity of a true man so pervades his whole spirit and beautifies his language, that his society is the most attractive; his speech the most forcible; and his influence the most benign; let us develop and enforce these three points.
ELIAS LYMAN MAGOON
Proverbs for the People
I cried myself to sleep
But now I'm so over you
And I see what you do
Your sincerity's kinda cheap
KYLIE MINOGUE
"Obsession"
We need expect little sincerity or trustworthy aid from him who is convinced that double-dealing and deceit are the principles that guide all men in their conduct through life.
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI
attributed, Day's Collacon
I set myself on fire
Just to see
Sincerity go up in smoke
TEXTBOOK TRAITORS
"A Notre Temps (A Toast to Errors)"