Candor Quotes
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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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.
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Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.
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The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.
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There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
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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.
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Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.
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One of the advantages of -- of this -- is that dying men are allowed complete and brutal candor.
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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 Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy.
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Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.
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There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine, A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.
