(318 quotes found)
“The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.”
Oscar Wilde
“The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.”
Charles M. Schulz
“The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.”
Winston Churchill
“Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.”
Confucius
“How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
Albert Camus
“The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.”
Dave Barry
“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”
Douglas Adams
“Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances”
William Powell
“Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
“It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship”
Lord Byron