Sincerity is the virtue of one who communicates and acts in accordance with the entirety of their feelings, beliefs, thoughts, and desires in a manner that is honest and genuine. Sincerity in one's actions may be called "earnestness".
Not who you're looking for? Others named sincerity: 1939 film directed by Mikio Naruse
““You’re sincere enough.” She laughed shortly. “Heaven protect the human race from the sincere idealist!””
“Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial — notoriously less stable and less inherent than the natures of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.”
“To seek sincerity above all things is perhaps, at bottom, not to want to be transformed; it is to cling to yourself, to have a morbid love of yourself, just as you are, that is to say, false. It is to refuse release.”
“[Rousseau], [t]he man who would be sincere is unconsciously insincere. This confirms the supposition I began with: that a contradiction exists between self-consciousness and sincerity. To be conscious of a self, vis-a-vis other selves, is already to expose that self to corruption.”
“Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.”
“The surest, as the shortest way, to make yourself beloved and honored, is to be, indeed, the very man you wish to appear.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
