Ends Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

— Rembrandt

Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.

— Confucius

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

— John Quincy Adams

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

— Confucius

Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.

— William Hazlitt

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

— James Russell Lowell

Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of…

— Aristotle

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men…

— John Tillotson

The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy…

— James Russell Lowell

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld