Quotes About Sincerity

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Honesty's the best policy.

Between jest and earnest.

I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.

I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Eso de amor -decíase Ramiro ahora- sabe a libro; sólo en el teatro y en las novelas se oye el yo te amo; en la vida de la carne y sangre y hueso el entrañable ¡te quiero! y el más entrañable aún callárselo.

La única verdad es el hombre fisiológico, el que no habla, el que no miente ...»

Es obra de misericordia suprema despertar al dormido y sacudir al parado, y es obra de suprema piedad religiosa buscar la verdad en todo y descubrir dondequiera el dolo, la necedad y la inepcia.

Habrían creído a sus obras y no a sus palabras, porque las palabras no sirven para apoyar las obras, sino que las obras se bastan.

The worst solitude," wrote Sir Francis Bacon, "is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Integrity is who we are when we're alone. It's when there's alignment between who we are on the inside and how we come across to others on the outside.

Be yourself, until you bleed.

Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely.

God is not looking for 'more and more' obedience but 'deeper and deeper' obedience. True obedience is of the heart. Externals matter only to the degree that they reflect (and affect) the heart.

Saying you believe in something is one thing but living like you believe is often another. If your words and actions disagree, which will more loudly declare your beliefs?

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.

To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

Ideological and political intolerance, even with the best and most sincere intentions, produces results that are the direct opposite of those intended.

Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass!The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass! It is the second tear that makes kitsch kitsch.

Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.

You can tell whether a person plays or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not. Then the way they talk and act. If they act too hip, you know they can't play shit.