Quotes about Sincerity

I always think that the franker you are with people, the more you're likely to deceive 'em; so unused is the modern world to the open hand and the guileless heart

Detachment is a rare virtue, and very few people find it lovable, either in themselves or in others. If you ever find a person who likes you in spite of it-still more, because of it-that liking has very great value, because it is perfectly sincere, and because, with that person, you will never need to be anything but sincere yourself.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends

'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.

When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are.

Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

Truth by definition excludes.

When the gospel is preached, there will be true and false conversions.

To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.