Quotes About Sincerity

The best of all lost arts is honesty

I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.

Diotallevi and Belbo, both from Piedmont, often claimed that any good Piedmontese had the ability to listen politely, look you in the eye, and say "You think so?" in a tone of such apparent sincerity that you immediately felt his profound disapproval

Signora, there's nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one's own heart….

there's nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one's own heart...

Madmen and children always speak the truth.

E' virtù sopra la virtù dissimulare la virtù.

The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We feel morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.

Years ago, I had a conversation with an actor who maintained, 'Once you can fake sincerity, you can achieve anything.' Even when I had no respect for the people I was dealing with, it was important to behave as if I did.

Be emotionally authentic. Close the gap between who you think you should be and who you really are, she said. If you're honest about your feelings, you're in harmony. If you're dishonest about them, you're in chaos. -Mary T. Browne

Buena es la verdad, mejor es el amor

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere.

And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference.

Quant au mode de prier, peu importe le nom, pourvu qu'il soit sincère. Tournez votre livre à l'envers et soyez à l'infini As for how you pray, the words do not matter if they are sincere. Turn your prayer book upside down and face the infinite.

Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues which have one vice,—error.

Nothing proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards the splendors of destiny.

The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, professional probity, the austerities of situation, incorruptible robes all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which befits it.

when both are sincere and good, no men so penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has devoted his life to his country here below, the other to his country on high; that is the only difference.

The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? There

The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration?

People don't lie accidentally. It's not like tripping over a crack in the sidewalk.

y, a pesar de la diferencia de edad entre ellas —que era de al menos diez años, quizá más—, se habían hecho amigas del mismo modo en que se hacen amigas mujeres que llevan vidas paralelas; una amistad sin palabras, pero no por ello menos sincera.