Quotes About Candor

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he said no, more of a papa's boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable.

In real life, I'm so brutally honest that it almost works against me sometimes.

When I got somethin' to say, I'll say it.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

I'm a grown man. I have six kids. I'm married now. So I speak my mind.

We have to lower our guard and know saying something's wrong isn't a bad thing.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

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 of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

I cannot tell a lie, and I'm very straightforward. Sometimes this hurts people. I've wondered if I should change, but I feel more comfortable about myself this way.

Most people are always wondering what to say. With me, life is an open book.

His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party simplistic, opportunistic and misguided. Reagan was surrounded by some very smart people who gave him very sound advice. They were not wondering where certain countries are on the map.

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

Learn to talk honestly, truthfully, logically, ethically, and boldly.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

I'm a "what you see is what you get" kind of guy. I don't have any time to be showing anybody any bag of tricks.

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.

He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man.

Because he was an asshole. I'm not sayin' nothin' I wouldn't say to his face. He embraced his assholeness.

in all honestly

In psychological terms, the Buddha's first truth, for instance, is really about the inevitability of our own humiliation. His insights challenge us to examine ourselves with a candor that we would prefer to avoid.