Quotes About Candor

Are you out of your mind?" It's not polite to lie to your best friend. "It's a possibility.

It is never easy to tell someone what they don't want to hear.

Listen, I will now tell you the truth and there is no other.

I have zero filters.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

No blame should attach to telling the truth.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.

In vino Veritas. (In wine there is truth.)

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous.

Give me the avowed, the erect, and manly foe, Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn the blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to our friendship that we are not.

Give me the avowed, the erect and manly foe, Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn the blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, oh save me from the candid friend!

If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated.

Let us be truthful to ourselves and the public.

I think everyone likes direct. They might not like it in a specific moment, but... I'm always gonna push 'em to do more. That's just me. I try to be truthful and honest and transparent, and if they don't like it, then so be it. And that's OK. I think they respect that and they know where I stand.

You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going to look them in the eye and tell them the truth, even some truths that they don't like. And - but they have to believe the person's speaking from their heart and are authentic.

I do not try to play a role. I feel good being myself and saying what I think.

I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.

I stand behind all my tweets. If I tweeted it and I said it, I am not apologizing for it.

It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

I have always said I will try to answer questions honestly. I don't want to change that about myself. I think people appreciate that about me.