Candor Quotes

98 Candor quotes by 76 unique authors

Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called… — Abraham Maslow
There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without… — Simon Greenleaf
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… — Ray Nagin
THE LONG WALK is a raw, wrenching, blood-soaked chronicle of the human cost of war. Brian Castner, the leader of a military bomb disposal team,… — Jon Krakauer
The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight,… — Glenn Close
Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but… — E. V. Lucas
There is no diplomacy like candor. — E. V. Lucas
Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin. — Tacitus
... the basic principles of the military services are unchangeable. Courage and candor, obedience and comradeship, love of fatherland and loyalty to the State: these… — Erich Raeder
I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of… — David Brooks
Candor is the brightest gem of criticism. — Benjamin Disraeli
To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view… — George Eliot
It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness. — Marshall McLuhan
A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me. — Antonio Porchia
If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it… — Ron Suskind
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 liberties 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

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