Candor Quotes

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I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the… — George Voinovich
The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when… — Edmund Burke
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… — Asa Gray
Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The other matter to which we beg leave to refer in candor has been the anxiety shown for the Constitution and civil liberÂties because of… — Diosdado Macapagal
Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that… — Richard Rosen
Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would… — Charles Caleb Colton
It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make… — Stephanie Mills
Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash. — Allen Ginsberg
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… — Rainer Maria Rilke
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. — Agnes Repplier
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… — Simon Greenleaf
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at… — Gerald R. Ford
In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality. — Nathanael Emmons
Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy. — Wilfrid Sheed
The questions which for years were in dispute between the State and General Government, and which unhappily were not decided by the dictates of reason,… — Robert E. Lee
Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place. — Alan Dershowitz
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… — Gerald R. Ford
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. — Peggy Noonan
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… — Sonia Sotomayor

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