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Brennan Kenneth Brown @[email protected] · 2026-07-14 · 07:50 UTC

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-06-12 · 20:29 UTC

All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, — never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-06-03 · 14:37 UTC

A quotation from Garry Wills

Politics demands a great capacity for self-deception, which rescues the politician from hypocrisy. He can normally manage to believe what he is saying for the time it takes him to say it. This gives him a certain sincerity even when he is saying opposite things to opposite people.

Garry Wills (b. 1934) American author, journalist, historian
Confessions of a Conservative, ch. 15 (1979)

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Kalvin Carefour Johnny @[email protected] · 2026-05-02 · 13:07 UTC

The Right to Authentic Belief

Sometimes I just wonder if it's true that we have the right not to be hypocrites. Religious beliefs and practices should be accepted and practised sincerely, without being threatened with fear and so on. We are not here to impress religious elites. My religion is mine; others are theirs.

#faith #spirituality #religion #freedom #truth #life #belief #sincerity #heart #peace #personal #growth #rights #humanity #mindfulness

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-04-08 · 22:28 UTC

A quotation from Montaigne

A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.

[Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

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Bodhi 心 @[email protected] · 2026-03-28 · 21:24 UTC

Wanna be friends? I value #sincerity, #earnestness, #kindness and #authenticity. I believe that serious, meaningful friendships can be formed online. Every friend was once a stranger.

I haven’t really stayed in one place for long, which means I have met loads of people over the years, but the friendships generally drift off because I wander around so much.

I figure this can be offset by striking up a friendship online, where geographical non-proximity is the defining feature. So, yeah 👍🏼

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-03-27 · 02:33 UTC

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

I think the gist of the matter is that a saint can live without politeness, and indeed that politeness is incompatible with a saintly character. But the man who is always to be sincere must be free from spite and envy and malice and pettiness. Most of us have a dose of these vices in our composition and therefore have to excerise tact to avoid giving offence. We cannot all be saints, and if saintliness is impossible, we may at least try not to be too disagreeable.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Essay (1933-02-01) “On Tact,” New York American

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-03-19 · 20:10 UTC

A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

Truly it is a sad thing for a people, as for a man, to fall into Scepticism, into dilettantism, insincerity; not to know Sincerity when they see it. For this world, and for all worlds, what curse is so fatal? The heart lying dead, the eye cannot see.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, London

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Nando161 @[email protected] · 2026-02-21 · 22:36 UTC

#Sincerity is the important thing on #TV. A presidential candidate should at least seem to believe what he’s saying—even if it’s all stone crazy.

Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

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Sean Murthy @[email protected] · 2025-11-08 · 00:15 UTC

"All potholes in Bengaluru to be filled by November 10"
- Greater Bengaluru Authority

They said *all potholes*. 🤣

https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/bengaluru/all-potholes-in-bengaluru-to-be-filled-by-november-10-gba-3790779

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-10-08 · 17:55 UTC

A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

The first rule is, to keep an untroubled spirit; for all things must bow to Nature’s law, and soon enough you must vanish into nothingness, like Hadrian and Augustus. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are, remembering that it is your duty to be a good man. Do without flinching what man’s nature demands; say what seems to you most just — though with courtesy, modesty, and sincerity.

[Τὸ πρῶτον μὴ ταράσσου: πάντα γὰρ κατὰ τὴν τοῦ ὅλου φύσιν καὶ ὀλίγου χρόνου οὐδεὶς οὐδαμοῦ ἔσῃ, ὥσπερ οὐδὲ Ἁδριανὸς οὐδὲ Αὔγουστος. ἔπειτα ἀτενίσας εἰς τὸ πρᾶγμα ἴδε αὐτὸ καὶ συμμνημονεύσας ὅτι ἀγαθόν σε ἄνθρωπον εἶναι δεῖ καὶ τί τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἡ φύσις ἀπαιτεῖ, πρᾶξον τοῦτο ἀμεταστρεπτὶ καὶ εἰπέ, ὡς δικαιότατον φαίνεταί σοι: μόνον εὐμενῶς καὶ αἰδημόνως καὶ ἀνυποκρίτως.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 8, ch. 5 (8.5) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

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