Quotes About Sincerity

Detached analysis has a place—but, in the end, you've got to speak from the heart and pose the question of truth.)

Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.

un comunicador que alude pronto a alguna debilidad es visto enseguida como alguien sincero.

Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds. Observers trying to decide what a man is like look closely at his actions.

If anyone says, 'I love God,' but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen" (1 Jn 4:20).

Being told by way of aggravation, that he had eaten half a dozen plumbs, Nay truly, sister, (answers he simply to her) I have eaten half a score. So perfect an enemy was he to a lie, that he had rather accuse himself of another fault, than be suspected to be guilty of that.

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.

What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be — and without having to pretend.

Authentic expression is something you can't invent. When you capture it, it's worthy of admiration.

BEING (models) instead of SEEMING (actors).

In your passion for the true, people may see nothing but faddism.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.

Honesty in small things is not a small thing.

But he could have been lying." "I don't know that he ever lied, Tyler. He was just a little stingy with the truth.

Not just pain, but bullshit. Avoiding bullshit.

Honesty is actually a blunt instrument, which bloodies more than it cuts.

If you are doing something primarily for money and without a real emotional commitment, it will translate into something that lacks a soul and that has no connection to you. You may not see this, but you can be sure that the public will feel it and that they will receive your work in the same lackluster spirit it was created in.

People who wear their hearts on their sleeves out in society are tiresome and embarrassing. Their sincerity notwithstanding, it is hard to take them seriously.

Lo que la gente diga de sí misma no importa; dirá lo que sea. Ve lo que ha hecho; los actos no mienten.

Since honesty rarely strengthens friendship, you may never know how a friend truly feels. Friends will say that they love your poetry, adore your music, envy your taste in clothes—maybe they mean it, often they do not.

You often do not know your friends as well as you imagine. Friends often agree on things in order to avoid an argument. They cover up their unpleasant qualities so as to not offend each other. They laugh extra hard at each other's jokes. Since honesty rarely strengthens friendship, you may never know how a friend truly feels. Friends will say that they love your poetry, adore your music, envy your taste of clothes-- maybe they mean it, often they do not.

No soy un señor, milady. Soy un pastor, y toca la flauta en las posadas

The louder a man tells you he's honest, the harder you must hold on to your purse.' " Another said, "The fox often offers to give the duck its pond.