Quotes 21 till 38 of 38.
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Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
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Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
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Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
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Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.
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Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.
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Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
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The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
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We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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