Quotes about Sincerity

Why do we get angry about what we believe? Because we do not really believe it. Or else what we pretend to be defending as the "truth" is really our own self-esteem. A man of sincerity is less interested in defending the truth than in stating it clearly, for he thinks that if the truth be clearly seen it can very well take care of itself.

Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly — are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

The way to truth stands open only to those without intentions.

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.

I have zero ego.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.