Quotes About Sincerity

Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men.

Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.

It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

Women love an honest man.

Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.

So upright Quakers please both man and God.

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all

Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

It's a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

But honest men do not pretend to know; they are candid and sincere; they love the truth; they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.