Quotes About Genuineness

And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

It's a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.

Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man.

It is impossible for a man to conceal himself. In every act, word or gesture he stands revealed as he is, and not as he would have himself appear to be. From the Universe, nothing is or an be hidden.

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.

Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!

If the imitation is always trying to be something, and cares desperately for its status, the original is really something, but does not care.

I'm against people reading statements. When you read a statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

Truth does not blush.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must establish for all time the genuineness and dignity of the weirdly horrible tale as a literary form.

There is no true life within a false life.

Be sure that whatever you are is you.

Simplicity ought to be in the intention, purity in the affection.

Nature admits no lie.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

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What we call pure or impure, is not with her the final question. Not how much chaff is in you; but whether you have any wheat. Pure? I might say to many a man: Yes, you are pure; pure enough; but you are chaff,—insincere hypothesis, hearsay, formality; you never were in contact with the great heart of the Universe at all; you are properly neither pure nor impure; you are nothing, Nature has no business with you.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.