Sincerity Quotes (page 17)

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• hope
• confused
• thinking

Don't confuse me with those who cling to hope. I enjoy describing how things are, I have no interest in how they 'ought to be.' And I certainly have no interest in fixing them. I sincerely believe that if you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem. My motto: Fuck Hope! George Carlin

• mindfulness
• excellence
• you me

Excellent friend! how sincerely did you love me, and endeavour to elevate my mind until it was on a level with your own. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

• ignorance
• arrogant
• quality

He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious. Isabel Allende

• education
• prayer
• courage

Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• faith
• faithfully
• sincerely

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. Confucius

• believe
• writing
• english

(I) only write it now because I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English. ("The Adoration of The Magi") William Butler Yeats

• past
• you me
• honestly

Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• liars
• she
• whatever

I'm not a liar, sir,' she said."'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be. Orson Scott Card

• perfect
• hand
• god

The true value of man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is not possession of Truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectability is to be found. Possession makes one passive, indolent and proud. If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err... Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

• life death
• mistake
• life

But so went forth Darnell, day by day, strangely mistaking death for life, madness for sanity, and purposeless and wandering phantoms for true beings. He was sincerely of opinion that he was a City clerk, living in Shephard's Bush -- having forgotten the mysteries and the far-shining glories of the kingdom which was his by legitimate inheritance. Arthur Machen

• sincere
• wills
• devote

At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions. Rene Descartes

• god
• hope
• world

There is no hope for a worldly man if he is not sincerely devoted to God. Ramakrishna

• emotional
• manly
• pain

It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind. W. Somerset Maugham

• french
• sincere
• teaching

Teach French and unteach sincerity. Leo Tolstoy

• laughter
• tears
• find

Within tears, find hidden laughter. Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one. Rumi