Quotes About Candor

I've always spoken my mind and from the heart.

In an honest man there is always something of a child.

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

It is the truth," said Oda-sensei. "Sometimes the truth is flattering.

Randy was forever telling people, without rancor, that they were full of shit. That was the only way to get anything done in hacking. No one took it personally.

What comes through my head is going to come out of my mouth.

Yeah I've got a mouth on me, but what I do is I give it as I see it.

There's no dignity in hiding from an undignified story. You don't want to die the death of 1000 cuts. Just get the whole thing out... the entire thing, every detail, answer the questions and move on.

I don't want to be mysterious.

You cannot play naive if you're not.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on—I like naked ladies naked.

I used to be more refined but at my age, you start to realize all that politeness doesn't get you very far. Better to be honest and direct, even if it does piss off a few people along the way.

The best of all lost arts is honesty

Madmen and children always speak the truth.

Had China been a small autocratic country without much financial clout, where the NBA occasionally played a demonstration game, Kerr might well never have spoken out in its defense. The catalyst for his candor was money and hope of more money, not principle.

Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues which have one vice,—error.

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.

I feel that the truth is simply the truth. And that to shield someone from it is only a manner of treating that person with a lack of respect.

feel that the truth is simply the truth. And that to shield someone from it is only a manner of treating that person with a lack of respect.

No such thing as too truthful," I said.

They gave high fives to all the players who say like the most obvious textbook answers in the world. It's like after each game, you already know what they're going to say. If they lost: "Ahh ... Tough loss." It's like, come on, how do you guys fall for that? And if they something that they really feel, everyone goes crazy. Like "Oohh! He's spazzing out!" Now he gotta say sorry for saying something he really felt. It's like, Oh lord.

The look he gave Helianos was one of perfect candor, a little unsure of himself, a little sentimental, seeming to hope that kindness would be repaid with kindness.

Be sincere always