Sincerity Quotes

• It is important to explain fully to the local areas with sincerity. We will also think, of course, about the development promotion of the communities.

  

  Shinzo Abe
  • Important
  • Community
  • Development

• It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Doubt
  • Painful
  • Sincerity

• To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Judgment
  • Praise
  • Discernment

• The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness, honesty and sincerity, and are intent only on passing ourselves off for what we are not. We then assume, like those three sophists, first a false pathos, then an affected and lofty earnestness, then an air of infinite superiority, in order to impose where we despair of ever being able to convince.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Air
  • Despair
  • Convince

• Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity. Everyone, we're assured, is a poet. Writing poetry is good for us. It expresses our inmost feelings, which is wholesome. Reading other people's poems is pointless since those aren't our own inmost feelings.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Practice
  • Poetry
  • Feelings

• Many things are between us and the Communists, but we respect the sincerity of their conviction and their willingness to bring sacrifices for their own cause, and this unites us with them.

  

  Ernst Rohm
  • Respect
  • Conviction
  • Communists

• My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Philosophy

• The more projects you do, the more actors you meet, the more people you meet, it's harder and harder to give your heart and your complete attention or absolute sincerity to that person.

  

  Sung Kang
  • Attention
  • Projects
  • Sincerity

• I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.

  

  Michael Schur
  • Thinking
  • Concerned
  • Opposites

• No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Help
  • Learn
  • Sorrow

• Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.

  

  Sallust
  • Money
  • Friends
  • Army

• What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait...

  

  Hattie McDaniel
  • Hollywood
  • Price
  • Sincerity

• What makes a painting fascinating is its sincerity. Sincerity is such a rare thing. Most people don't dare to be sincere.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Painting
  • Sincerity
  • Fascinating

• Perfect wisdom, Perfect tranquility,Perfect compassion,arise fromOur love,Our sincerity.Our understanding.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Wisdom
  • Compassion
  • Sincerity

• The hole on the face of an acoustic guitar is called the sound hole. The one of the face of its player is called the sincerity hole.

  

  Dana Gould
  • Player
  • Sound
  • Sincerity

• Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had to do if I was going to write another novel - was move towards something like sincerity.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Novel
  • Sincerity
  • Irony

• The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere!

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Truth
  • Sincerity
  • Great Man

• If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.

  

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
  • Sweet
  • Speech
  • Sincerity

• There is something so pure and frank and noble about Him that to doubt His sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun.

  

  Charles Edward Jefferson
  • Doubt
  • Sun
  • Christ

• Technique is the test of sincerity.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Technique
  • Sincerity

• Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Value
  • Technique
  • Sincerity

• I could write a joke song really easily, but I think something that might be true for my generation is that there's a certain irony or detachedness expected of us, even though we really feel sincere. So the only way to sincerity is through a joke.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Song
  • Generation
  • Joke

• I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.

  

  Elvin Jones
  • Feel
  • Sincerity
  • Proper

• In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears.

  

  Robert Zubrin
  • Freedom
  • Sincerity
  • Animated

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