"Your candor is worth everything to your cause.……" — Asa Gray
"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."
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28 Quotes by Asa Gray
Asa Gray has 28 quotes on this site.
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Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY…
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Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side…
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In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
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It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely…
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The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was…
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This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died…
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Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is…
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I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can…
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I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of…
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Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those…
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It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences…
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Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance…
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I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the…
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Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where…
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It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite…
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In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss…
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The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a…
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Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.
— Karen Allen
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Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.
— Jack Welch
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My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was…
— Jack Welch
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It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so…
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