A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“if Columbus in an island of America had not caught the disease, which poisons the source of generation, and often indeed prevents… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine how any diplomat, or any dramatist, could improve on (Ronald Reagan's) words to Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva summit:… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Our ... advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration ... If either of us suggested a new… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea. — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Divorce was the darkest, saddest place I had ever been. It was a struggle - there were a good four or five… — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image