#candor

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

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There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#divine #follow #found #investigate #lead

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. ↗

— George Eliot

#correction #motive #prophecy #life

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#candor #his #judgment #less #modesty

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present. ↗

— Asa Gray

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It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. ↗

— Russell Lynes

#always #candor #friends #incredulity #own

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin. ↗

— Tacitus

#due #generosity #leads #moderation #ruin

I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy. ↗

— George Voinovich

#bipartisan #candor #clear #committee #during

Can you tell me where to find Tobias'? I ask. When I imagine his face, affection for him bubbles up inside of me and all I want to do is kiss him. 'Four, I mean. He's so handsome, isn't he? I don't really understand why he likes me so much. I'm not very nice, am I?' -Tris ↗

— Veronica Roth

#amity #candor #dauntless #divergent #eurdite

Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people. ↗

— James Bovard

#american #american people #ancient #candor #come