Sincerity
The quality or state of being sincere; honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation, hypocrisy, disguise, or false pretense; sincereness.
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Sincerity Quotations
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
Albert Camus
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
James Russell Lowell
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.
George Eliot
Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
Morihei Ueshiba
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
Charles Spurgeon
For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.
George Orwell
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
Fred Allen
Sincerity Translations
sincerity in Dutch is oprechtheid, openhartigheid
sincerity in German is Aufrichtigkeit {f}
sincerity in Spanish is sinceridad
sincerity in Swedish is uppriktighet
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