Quotes About Genuineness

thing, or who changes his speech or manner according to the appearance or position of the people he meets, is not a man working in the Way.

A person who is influenced by the quality of a thing, or who changes his speech or manner according to the appearance or position of the people he meets, is not a man working in the Way.

The first sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act great. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assures us, you must not look too good nor talk too wise.

Experience has taught me," says Sam Wood, "that it is safest to drop, as quickly as possible, people who pretend to be what they aren't.

I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;

Die Echtheit einer Sache ist der Inbegriff alles von Ursprung her an ihr Tradierbaren, von ihrer materiellen Dauer bis zu ihrer geschichtlichen Zeugenschaft.

She is the only rose that doesn't smell of plastic

He was incredibly phony, a complete poseur... He pretended to be interested in technology, but he wasn't. He was a marketing guy, and that is what marketing guys are: paid poseurs.

His embrace, however, did not extend to people who were pretentious or pompous (with the exception of Wiener). When he thought a speaker was spouting nonsense, he would stand up and ask what seemed to be innocent but were in fact devilish questions. After a few moments, the speaker would realize he had been deflated and Licklider would sit down. "He didn't like poseurs or pretenders," Tracy recalled. "He was never mean, but he slyly pricked people's pretensions.

Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native luster about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted." While

His voice sounded more sincere in these surroundings, less distorted by pride and pain.

Whatever is manufactured outwardly by our own effort is not real and is doomed to frustration and defeat.

I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

You are not necessarily what you say. Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words. What you do in your present moments is the only indicator of what you are as a person.

It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not." — ANDRÉ GIDE

be authentic in all of your interactions.

Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair—look at what's really there.

Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair—look at what's really there.

Romanists again admit that many false traditions have prevailed in different ages and in different parts of the Church. Those who receive them are confident of their genuineness, and zealous in their support. How shall the line be drawn between the true and false? By what criterion can the one be distinguished from the other? Protestants say there is no such criterion, and therefore, if the authority of tradition be admitted, the Church is exposed to a flood of superstition and error.

You took her as she was. She wasn't trying to impress anyone," said Claude Nunnelly.

The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.

It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.

The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.