Best 234 quotes in «genuine quotes» category

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.

Any genuine work of art generates new work.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

A rumor is like a check--never endorse it till you're sure it's genuine.

As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.

Be genuine. Just be yourself.

Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.

Be genuine. Be remarkable. Be worth connecting with.

Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.

But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.

Believers have a genuine, unfailing hope of a future reunion with loved ones. We can find joy in anticipating our future reunion.

Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience.

But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.

By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with. And you don't have to have it figured out perfectly the first time - you can adjust.

Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.

Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize).

Creativity is, quite simply, a genuine interest combined with initiative.

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

Donald Trump is a genuine threat to America.

Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.

Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.

E-I-E-I-O is actually a gross misspelling of the word farm.

Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

Folly ends where genuine hope begins.

Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it.

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible.

Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints.

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

Genuine happiness is hard to miss.

Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.

Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

Genuine peace is based on inner peace, because you cannot build peace on the basis of anger

Genuine thanksgiving is a response to both who God is and what He has done, is doing, and will do.

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

Genuine happiness comes from focusing on the happiness of others.

Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life

Genuine faith can find encouragement, even in that which is discouraging and get nearer to God.

Genuine goodness isn't discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not. We must find it in what is and what we truly see.

Genuine and innocent wit is surely the very flavor of the mind.

Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.

...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

Honesty is the precondition for genuine scientific and scholarly work.

I cannot say where I will be in 5 yearsscratch that, tomorrowBut I know that wherever you find me, I will remain true to myself with a genuine smile on my face and happiness in my heart.

Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.