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Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
Not that we were being insincere. Or maybe I should say we were being sincere in our insincerity.
Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings.
If you are posing as religious and are not living the life as stressed by God, you should wake up. It is wrong to be insincere. The best time to begin a religious life is when you are youthful and well. If you have a short time to live, you must work harder at it. And if you have along time to live, you should not waste that precious opportunity.
Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
Nor was he insincere in saying, "Make my house your inn." Inns are not residences.
"Trees" maddens me, because it contains the most insincere line ever written by mortal man. Surely the Kilmer tongue must have been not far from the Kilmer cheek when he wrote, "Poems are made by fools like me.''
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.
In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.
The doctrine, as I understand it, consists in maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy, which has no need of technical terms or of changes in the significance of common terms. I find myself totally unable to accept this view. I object to it: 1.Because it is insincere; 2.Because it is capable of excusing ignorance of mathematics, physics and neurology in those who have had only a classical education; 3.Because it is advanced by some in a tone of unctuous rectitude, as if opposition to it were a sin against democracy; 4.Because it makes philosophy trivial; 5.Because it makes almost inevitable the perpetuation amongst philosophers of the muddle-headedness they have taken over from common sense.
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask.
SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's own by superior insincerity and fooling.
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