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Quotes About Sincerity

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit. It
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
El cinismo es la única forma en que las almas vulgares rozan lo que es honestidad;
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
You can see that I have become so candid that I can endure only human relationships which are absolutely genuine. I avoid half-friendships.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Of all that is written I love only what a man has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will experience that blood is spirit.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
One thing was clear: his attempt at sincerity and clarity had been a total failure. The world was accustomed to subterfuge and verbal pyrotechnics, and when it didn't get the expected commodity, it grew suspicious. Sincerity had no market value.
~ Fritz Leiber
When I love I love, when I hate I hate. I don't believe in the kind of love that can be sliced and passed around, the kind of love that undermines and destroys while it pretends to caress.
~ Fritz Leiber
To love what we say, it must be true. To want to speak the truth, it must be loved.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man's-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood.
~ Ameen Rihani
There's something really earnest inside me all the time. It's not a cool or fun way to be. Sometimes I would like to experience being someone who's not wired the way I'm wired.
~ Zoe Kazan
Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.
~ Willem Dafoe
I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.
~ Dan Harmon
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
~ William Whitelaw
I wish I could say I was wise and clever, but I'm really not.
~ Sheila Hancock
The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and implemented wisely.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
The ideas I'm working with are ideas I'm committed to. I don't know how to soft-shoe them. I don't know how to make them more palpable. I just never knew how to be one of those girls. I wish I knew how to be that sometimes, but I don't know how to be that way.
~ Carrie Mae Weems
I always knew what I was worth, what I could do, what I could not do. I think that I have a genetic problem with lying. I just can't lie. I get in trouble with my husband because of that. He wishes that I wasn't so sincere, but I am.
~ Cristina Saralegui
Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.
~ Karen Gillan
Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves.
~ Chuck Schuldiner
Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have never, ever, as God is my witness, contrived a single debate in a single show.
~ Skip Bayless
I always pull from something I know really well. Because I would never want to write about something that I hadn't experienced or that I hadn't witnessed happen to somebody else because it wouldn't be genuine.
~ Loren Gray
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
~ George Eliot
I'm not witty.
~ Claire Denis