Culture Quote by Jeffrey Zaslow

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method…

— Oswald Chambers

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

— Blaise Pascal

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

— Marc Webb

I don't think of myself as particularly earnest. I have long bouts of cynicism and skepticism. So much of my early life was full…

— Pankaj Mishra

Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.

— James Freeman Clarke

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

— Victor Hugo

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

— Charles Spurgeon

I would hope that nothing that I write would ever seem earnest because I subscribe absolutely to Franz Nietzsche's claim when he says, "Ah,…

— Geoff Dyer

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

— William James

To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

— Alphonse de Lamartine