Fred Rogers Quotes

I've been pretty good at reading people. If you rockin' with me cause you're just a solid individual, then we're rockin'. But if you got a motive or something, I am going to probably see right through that.

My mom knows when something is real and something is not.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well.

One thing my mother had a nose for was inauthenticity.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

I seek the truth.

People can smell a fake.

The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere!

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

The best vision is insight.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

Truth is a big concept.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?

I'm not someone who calculates things.