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A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.

~ Criss Jami

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You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Arrogance Corruption Destruction Honesty Humility Insincerity Pride Sincerity Truth

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.

~ Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia Belief Faith Insincerity Pretense Religion

I am always saying Glad to've met you to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

~ J.d. Salinger

J.d. Salinger Friendship Insincerity Manners

The aim is to love God because the pure heart loves loving God and because the true mind knows He deserves it. Unlike the accusations and beliefs of the critics and skeptics, it is neither an obligation of duty; nor a fear of damnation; nor a wish for power; nor a desire to appear more righteous than others; nor because God needs it; but because through all love, truth, reason, faith, honesty, and joy in and beyond oneself and the universe, He is worthy.

~ Criss Jami

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You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.

~ Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard Art Artists Artists Life Insincerity Pretention

Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.

~ Jane Austen

Jane Austen Congratulations Insincerity Marriage

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

~ Criss Jami

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Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

~ Criss Jami

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The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

~ Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton Falsehood Family Friends Insincerity Kindness Loneliness Pretense

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.

~ Criss Jami

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I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said, it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.

~ Reif Larsen

Reif Larsen Children Insincerity Listening

Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister—that redolence of moral blackmail that adheres to certain charitable appeals and certain kinds of politician. (Not for nothing is baby-kissing the synonym for public insincerity.)

~ Christopher Hitchens

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I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.

~ Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad Classic Fiction Insincerity

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

~ Criss Jami

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A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it.

~ Criss Jami

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The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

~ John Updike

John Updike 1960 Belief Comedian Humor Humorist Insincerity Truth

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

~ Criss Jami

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When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Appease Appeasement Approval Arrogance Artificial Compliments Ego Egotistical Fake False Flattery Insincerity Kindness Nice Pride Selfish Support

BE REALBring it on-And let truth be my existence.Value my life-And tell me like it is.Bark at me when I'm wrong-And hug me when I'm right.Praise me if I succeed-And tell me if I fail.Laugh at me if you think I'm funny-And wink at me if you think I'm cute.Yell at me if I ever hurt you-And scold me if I'm ever bad.Keep things real with me, Because I want to be alive,I want my world to be real-And I want to see your spirit.I want to hear you breathe- And I want to know how you feel.Don’t waste my time with insincerities.Keep my world real.

~ Giorge Leedy

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The dean put a finger to his chin as he studied this great and troubling mystery. The applicant’s response reeked of insincerity, like, “Have a nice day!” with all the friendly burned off. “Okay, Mr. Darlington. I’ll just be a minute.

~ Michael Benzehabe

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Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.

~ Criss Jami

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Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

~ Sigmund Freud

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To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at your funeral.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

~ Criss Jami

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True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail.

~ Jewel

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An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Criticism Insincerity Losing Sincerity Winning

Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Even his conversation was, as it were, a spoken part.

~ T.h. White

T.h. White Conversation Insincerity Sincerity
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