Quotes About Candor

I do have a little bit of trouble with candor around the things that I used to do. I think it's probably just resultant of shame and embarrassment and not wanting to be defined by the life that I used to live.

I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.

'Tough' is one of the last adjectives I would use to describe myself.

we always spoke our minds we wouldn't have no friends at all, and no love, and the human race would die out.

She spoke out, with plainness and directness. When you had to deal a mortal blow, why try to lighten it?

This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.

Madam, there is no treachery in the truth. There may be pain, but to face honestly all possible conclusions formed by a set of facts is the noblest route possible for a human being." Holmes could be surprisingly empathetic at times

Madam, there is no treachery in the truth. There may be pain, but to face honestly all possible conclusions formed by a set of facts is the noblest route possible for a human being.

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

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 conceded to every branch of human science.

Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy.

What we lack in subtlety, we make up for with a lack of subtlety.

I will have no locked cupboards in my life.

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

Laurel was no bullshit. She didn't say things she didn't mean.

As ugly as the truth is, it's even uglier when someone says out loud what you've been thinking to yourself.

since if government officials know that all of their ideas and positions may be made public, it inhibits openness, candor, and trust in communications. The predictable result will be for government officials to commit ever less information to writing, either in print or in the form of emails. Instead, they will limit important matters to oral conversation. But that decreases the opportunity to carefully lay out positions.

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am...

The time for hidden truths is over.

an audience on whom he could test his thoughts and plans. Beaverbrook could be counted on for candor at all times, and to deliver advice without regard for politics or personal feelings.

A leader is someone who has the courage to say publicly what everybody else is whispering privately.