Candor Quotes

Candor Quote of the day

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

Candor disarms paranoia.

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

Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.

In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

Honesty is always the best policy.

Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.

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

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

There is no diplomacy like candor.

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

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

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.

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.

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.

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.

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

Ted, damned if I'm not impressed with your candor!

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work.

Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it frustrates teams and bosses to no end.

The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

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.

Candor is the only way I know how to do it. I'm way too old to change. At the end of the day, I believe the truth is stronger than any lie that's out there.

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.

I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.

Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

The painter saw what was, an alternate Candor and secrecy inside the skin.

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

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

I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.

Candor toward a brother must not be mistaken for confession. The latter is made to the Lord of heaven and earth in the presence of a man is authorized to hear it.

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.

Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare.

It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions about photography that matter most to me.

If you reward candor, you'll get it.

Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.

Thank you for your honesty.