Quotes About Candor

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

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

I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.

I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.

To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

Dear brother," Number Two replied, "I can eat shit, I just don't like the taste.

I am, I fear, Inclined to be unfashionably sincere.   ORONTE

I am, I fear, inclined to be unfashionably sincere.

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I have the defect of being more sincere than persons wish.

My only illness is that sometimes I'm too honest with people.

The truth is not meant to be balanced or filtered out. You are only allowed to deliver it the way it is.

Most of what I say is complete truth. My edit button is broken.

Well, I just think that is the problem, you put up with it instead of speaking your mind.

Jimmy Carter did not present himself as perfect or pious ... Neither did he compromise his understanding of the Gospel by verbal dodging or double talk. He took a political risk by being so forthright about his faith; in the end though, I believe his candor worked in his favor.' - Billy Graham

Let's face it: the reason many guys have stopped telling the truth in church is because most churches actively discourage truthfulness. Even in Christian men's groups, the cost of candor is usually painfully high, the punitive response to it swift and decisive.

Bauhaus design at its best demonstrates that the ordinary and the everyday, when addressed with discernment and tastefulness, have a candor and clarity that calm the insides.

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Having said that, the enchanted wanderer seemed to feel prophetic inspiration coming upon him anew and lapsed into quiet concentration, which none of his interlocutors ventured to interrupt with any new question. And what more could they have asked him? He had divulged the story of his past with all the candor of his simple soul, and his predictions remained in the hands of Him who conceals their destinies from the wise and prudent and only sometimes reveals them unto babes.

Heidi Well, do you want me to be honest or do you want me to tell you this is the first time

Her two outstanding characteristics were self-confidence and candor. The latter sometimes got her into hot water Durrance later told Charlotte, but the former kept it from scalding her.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

Ask for what you want. Say what's on your mind. Be honest with me, and I'll always be honest with you.