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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

Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

— Marshall McLuhan

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.

— Joaquin Phoenix

Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining,…

— Peter Bayne

The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

— Ina May Gaskin

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never…

— Madeleine L'Engle