Quotes About Sincerity

Try to live so that you can always tell the truth.

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

My feelings have never once cared about what they should be.

But I loved them. I loved the truth they conveyed: that kids aren't yet able to fake it. Or they aren't yet able to conceal their disingenuousness. They're wonderful smilers, the best; but they're the very worst fake smilers. The inability to fake a smile defines childhood.

Es muy perjudicial tratar de empujarnos a sentir cosas que no sentimos, actuar como si las sintiéramos. Porque los sentimientos no se eligen, suceden.

Espero ser juzgado por lo que he escrito, no por lo que he dicho o me han hecho decir. Yo soy sincero en este momento, pero quizás dentro de media hora ya no esté de acuerdo con lo que he dicho.

Toda ficción es una impostura; lo que importa es sentir que ha sido soñada sinceramente.

Uno puede fingir muchas cosas, incluso la inteligencia. Lo que no se puede fingir es la felicidad.

he affected great piety (as became a pilgrim), although unable to read the inspired words of the Prophet.

The Path of the Heart is the Hardest to take, for the Heart will not Fool, and the Heart will not Fake.

What Americans value and strive for is straight talking, plain saying. They don't go in for ambiguity or dissembling, the etiquette of hidden meaning, the skill of the socially polite lie.

Let us pray to remain in ignorance of the faults of those we like. Let us pray it as sincerely as we pray that they shall remain in ignorance of ours.

Your gaze betrays the willingness in your heart.

the smile on his lips didn't reach his eyes.

Friendship is a sacred word, a holy thing; it is never developed except between persons of character, and never takes root except through mutual respect; it flourishes not so much by kindnesses as by sincerity. What makes one friend sure of another is the knowledge of his integrity: as guarantees he has his friend's fine nature, his honor, and his constancy.

In the restaurant of life, the false Salafi can do no more than eat the menu.

The believer's greatest argument is his face. True religion lights up the face; false religion fills it with insecurity, rage and suspicion. This is perceptible not only to insiders (Muslims), but to anyone.

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

I hate [slavery] because it deprives the republican example of its just influence in the world—enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites—causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.