Candor Quotes
98 quotes by 78 authors
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I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.
— John O. Brennan
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Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a…
— Felix Frankfurter
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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
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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...…
— 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 To cultivate the sense of…
— 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 of voting rights now do…
— Lani Guinier
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The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as…
— James Madison
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Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of her improbable life…
— Janice Erlbaum
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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 my candor that helped make…
— 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 even does impetuosity and impudence.
— Kenneth Rexroth
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The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged…
— Michiko Kakutani
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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…
— James F. Cooper
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Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
— Robert Herrick
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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
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The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it…
— E. V. Lucas
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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…
— James Bovard
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Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?
— Leo Tolstoy
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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 unflinching…
— Raymond Arroyo
Who Wrote These Candor Quotes
78 authors contributed a total of 98 Candor Quotes, led by these top contributors: