Candor Quotes - Page 6

• Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.

  Veronica Roth

  Innovation, Doe, Protection

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• If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. Now as always God discovers Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Wise, Religious, Simplicity

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• Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve.

  Veronica Roth

  Honesty, Different, Phrases

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• Pragmatism ... reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of 'being practical' as counter to which philosophical meditation as such was conceived.

  Max Horkheimer

  Attitude, Philosophical, Meditation

  Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.35, A&C Black

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• This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. "In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives.

  Veronica Roth

  Teacher, Community, Leader

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Four: A Divergent Collection”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• The questions which for years were in dispute between the State and General Government, and which unhappily were not decided by the dictates of reason, but referred to the decision of war, having been decided against us, it is the part of wisdom to acquiesce in the result, and of candor to recognize the fact.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Government, Years

  Letter to former Virginia governor John Letcher on August 28, 1865. "Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee" by John William Jones, p. 203, 1874.

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• The Dauthless have the wierdest slang. Pansycake, Nose...is there a term for The Candor?" "Of course."Uriah grins."Jerks

  Veronica Roth

  Noses, Jerk, Slang

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• Secrets hidden at the heart of midnight are simply waiting to be dragged to the light, as, on some unlucky high noon, they always are. But secrets shrouded in the glare of candor are bound to defeat even the most determined and agile inspector for the light is always changing and proves that the eye cannot be trusted.

  James A. Baldwin

  Heart, Eye, Light

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• Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.

  Agnes Repplier

  Simplicity, Quality, Enthusiasm

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• One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Want, Tests, Innocence

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Poetry, Roles, Manipulation

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• Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.

  E. V. Lucas

  Nature, Liars, Hands

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