Definition of Sincerity

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

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
Douglas Adams

For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.
George Orwell

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

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
James Russell Lowell

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

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
Thomas Fuller

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Thomas Carlyle

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

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
Ezra Pound

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.
Mikhail Bakunin

Sincerity is the way to heaven.
Mencius

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
Mencius

The secret of success is sincerity.
Jean Giraudoux

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
Xun Zi

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
Erwin Schrodinger

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
Joseph Conrad

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.
Mike Huckabee

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.
Lionel Blue

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
Garth Brooks

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
Queen Elizabeth II

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
Peggy Noonan

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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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