Quotes About Candor

Yeah, I'm an open book.

We expect candor and transparency from the president, from the administration.

I'm not a hypocrite and I'm a transparent person.

I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.

I find, the older I get, the more surprised I am about how hesitant people are to say what they really want, what they really dream about, what really drives them. It's as if sometimes we're sort of embarrassed, as we get older, to be transparent about that. But you save so much time if you're transparent about what you want.

I've tried my best to be transparent with everything I do. What you see is what you get.

I've never been fully transparent or an open book, even to those you'd call close friends.

I've never been much for political correctness myself. Yep. As far as I'm concerned, politically correct is just another name for brain dead.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

An honest man is always a child.

F]rom me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language... decked out with fine words and phrases; no, what you will hear will be a straightforward speech in the first words that occur to me, confident as I am in the justice of my cause; and I do not want any of you to expect anything different.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.

Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

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.

In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

Friends should always tell you the truth. But please don't.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.