Candor Quotes

98 quotes by 78 authors

I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers. — John O. Brennan
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
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. — Russell Lynes
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
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
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
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
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
Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness. — Karen Allen
Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer. — Jack Welch
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
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
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
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
Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting. — Robert Herrick
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
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
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
Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again? — Leo Tolstoy
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

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