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Quotes About Sincerity

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
~ George Orwell
It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.
~ Sharon Stone
It feels so good to tell the truth.
~ Foxy Brown
In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need
~ Nora Roberts
When you ask someone how they are doing, do you really mean it? When you answer someone back how you are doing, are you really telling the truth?
~ Brady Quinn
Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted.
~ Benjamin Franklin
For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.
~ Michel de Montaigne
There's courage involved if you want to become Truth.
~ Rumi
Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
~ Ouida
Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.
~ William of Conches
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.
~ August Sander
When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'
~ Wendy Cope
Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.
~ John Steinbeck
The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.
~ Vincent D'Onofrio
All we can do is go around telling the truth.
~ Carson McCullers
A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.
~ Anton Chekhov
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
~ Herman Melville
Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
~ Alexander Pope
The truth brings no man a fortune.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.
~ Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
~ Edgar Watson Howe