Top 138 Candor Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.

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

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

I don't feel any ethical dilemma when I write. In my memoir, I was able to write with candor about the two most difficult people in the world to write with candor about - mom and dad. Everything else is downhill from there.

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

We expect candor and transparency from the president, from the administration.

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

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.

Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.

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

When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book, 'Duty', it was full of tough assessments and candor.

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

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

Demand candor from commanding officers, and weigh heavily their recommendations.

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 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.

Pragmatism ... reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of 'being practical' as counter to which philosophical meditation as such was conceived.

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

The Dauthless have the wierdest slang. Pansycake, Nose...is there a term for The Candor?" "Of course."Uriah grins."Jerks

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.

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

Candor disarms paranoia.

If you reward candor, you'll get it.

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.

There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine, A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.

My candor has gotten me in a lot of trouble over the years!

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.

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

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

Believe me, you don't want to be at a company where there is more candor in the hallways than in the rooms where fundamental ideas or policy are being hashed out.

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

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

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.

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

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

Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.

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.

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.

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.

There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any observation relating to the mind, the easiest method is to illustrate it by outward objects. If, for instance, a man was to sweat and labor all the days of his life to fill a chest which was already full, the absurdity of his vain endeavor would be glaring. In the same manner, when the human mind is filled and stuffed with notions brought thither by fallacious inclinations, there is no room for truth to enter: candor being banished, passions alone bear the sway.

There is no diplomacy like candor.

Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.

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.

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

Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?

'A Talk to Teachers' is emblematic of Baldwin's proclivity for candor over political appeasement and, like much of his work, focusses on history and the American consciousness.

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 international affairs.

Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.

The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.

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.

Candor is the key to collaborating effectively. Lack of candor leads to dysfunctional environments.

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

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

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