Candor Quote by Madame de Stael Download Open image “Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.” — Madame de Stael ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Candor Genius Innocence Intelligence Noble Quality
Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Consider how impossible nobility of character would be if our goodness were untried innocence instead of victorious virtue. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
In the world that we live in purity and innocence are the true strengths. It is strength to live in a world like this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents? — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
“I struggle to keep my hard, expressionless mask in place. The doctor's most powerful weapon has always been his particular brand of brutal honesty.… — Cristin Terrill Copy Share Image
Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Jennifer Fulwiler's story of finding God when you aren't looking for Him is a universal tale which will touch many hearts. With warmth and… — Raymond Arroyo Copy Share Image
Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now… — Lani Guinier Copy Share Image
Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“Clare wasn't worried anymore about their being mean to each other. She imagined that someday she'd be part of a friendship in which she… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
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