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Quotes About Candor

I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done.
~ Lillie Langtry
Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
~ Mason Cooley
Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.
~ Kelly Rowland
You tell me the truth, and I am hooked for life, because the one thing that you can't find nowadays is the person who is going to be absolutely honest with you.
~ Jessica White
The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
~ Jack Kemp
It is about time that we discard all bunkum--
~ Rod Smith
Trust opens people up to give you the truth, rather than just telling you what you want to hear.
~ Roger Connors
You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
~ Ron White
notice that frankness is the first virtue of a deceased man.
~ Machado de Assis
You're much too straightforward to be able to pretend to be what you aren't," Mrs. Murry said.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
~ Malcolm X
While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.
~ Amy Tan
I am in a fever of ruthless honesty. Anaïs
~ Anais Nin
It is better to be too honest to be polite than to be too polite to be honest!
~ André Comte-Sponville
To speak truthfully is to accurately represent one's beliefs. But candor offers no assurance that one's beliefs about the world are true.
~ Sam Harris
Faith is what credulity becomes when it finally achieves escape velocity from the constraints of terrestrial discourse—constraints like reasonableness, internal coherence, civility, and candor. However
~ Sam Harris
Pope Innocent III decreed that all property belonging to a convicted heretic would be forfeited to the church; the church then shared it both with local officials and with the victim's accusers, as a reward for their candor.
~ Sam Harris
The young man, who intends no ill, Believes that none is intended, and therefore Acts with openness and candor: but his father, having suffered the injuries of fraud, is impelled to suspect, and too often allured to practice it.
~ Samuel Johnson
if i were a book i would be so open
~ Sarah Dessen
Mimi didn't care about secrecy. She led a proclaimed life, and once she got talking she held back nothing.
~ Saul Bellow
Siguran sam da ste bili iskreni. Ne neiskreni. Prava neiskrenost rijetko se sre?e.
~ Saul Bellow
It's no small matter to become rich and famous by saying exactly what you think—to say it in your own words, without compromise.
~ Saul Bellow
einen offenen, treuherzigen Menschen.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
an individual's moral obligation in the situation is to 'call it as he sees it' without consideration of what others say.
~ John Brockman