Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam]… — Jonathan Yardley Copy Share Image
He who knows the serious thinking with a few words is sincerely curious in life; but without a word he who understands… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“My heartfelt appreciation goes out to Jan Zwicky, Don McKay, John Barton, Barry Dempster, Carolyn Forché and Elizabeth Philips for their masterful… — Leigh Kotsilidis Copy Share Image
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men,… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I want to treat the… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
In a way, my father [Pablo Escobar] reached a certain degree of sincerity that I became to know and I would even… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
All I could do was try to build a new life and find a way somehow to repair some of the damage.… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
“What will it take for you to believe me when I tell you I think you’re amazing?” He’d called her amazing before,… — Jody Hedlund Copy Share Image
Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
'Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord' means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
All sincere boys fall in love with stupid girls, all sincere girls fall in love with stupid boys, I am neither stupid… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the… — Riz Ahmed Copy Share Image
But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I condemn all statements - made in sincerity or jest - that threaten or suggest the use of violence against the president… — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
She only praises me if I have done something worthy of praise. I am really happy to have a mum like that,… — Gabriel Jesus Copy Share Image
But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
You just have to be adventurous and that's the way I like to work. I think that's the role of the artist,… — Neige Copy Share Image
The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The iPod has taken away the whole platinum record sales prospect. Sincerity and specificity are going to be the hot commodities in… — Eric Lewis Copy Share Image
What ever you do,you should do with your all your heart.Heaven will the man who is sincere,and one's fellowmen will trust him… — Confucianism Copy Share Image
With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time,… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“Be a gift, a light, a blessing as far as the eye can see to answer a call as well as a… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not… — Mencius Copy Share Image
I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“But it really all boils down to this - we don't know them, for all our sincerity, our good intentions. We don't… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
The Devil hinders me. You know I say Just what I think, and nothing more nor less, And, when I pray, my… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image