Quotes About Candor

È impeccabile il modo in cui la verità può essere brutale, a volte. Non si può che ammirarla.

But maybe 'the brutality of fact' isn't a phrase that precisely suits what he does. Perhaps, 'the awkwardness of truth' would be nearer the mark. …

she had nothing to hide from him, nothing to keep unstated, everything was granted, answered, found.

Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth. Dagny Taggart

honesty very nearly constituted a religious principle for her.* She believed in full candor, which was not the same as full disclosure.

Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

I just wanted someone to tell me the truth

Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?

Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth.

Only real true friends will tell you when your face is dirty, Others will either pamper, avoid or laugh at you certainly.[227] - 4 (Thoughts)

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

You are the one honest thing I've done in my whole life.

I have always held in high regard individuals who informed me that certain behavior or policies were inappropriate. I respect candor. My door is always open for news—good or bad. Many leaders only want to hear the positive. It is dangerous to be employed by such people. Those who never want to hear bad news don't want to know when they are off course.

Telling the truth often elicits hostility and anger.

We don't share our thoughts, we share carefully sanitized, watered-down versions of them, Hollywood adaptations of those thoughts dumbed down for the PG-13 crowd.

An early New Thought writer said: "Knead love into the bread you bake; wrap strength and courage in the parcel you tie for the woman with the weary face; hand trust and candor with the coin you pay to the man with the suspicious eyes." This is beautifully said, and it sums up the Practice of the Presence of God.

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

There's something about honesty...A chap's got to be honest. Never forget it all thy entire life. And there's a funny thing about honesty...No two ways about it; there's only one way about it....(Father to son, Joe)

And there's a funny thing about honesty; there's no two ways about it. There's only one way about it. Honest is honest.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

America's very refreshing when you go over there; they're all just open about what they want, and they want you to be open, too.

I refuse to say things behind people's backs.