Quotes about Candor
Care without candor creates dysfunctional relationships. Candor without care creates distant relationships.
- John Maxwell
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
- St. Jerome
In life, and in basketball, if you lay the truth out there, people don't have to guess.
- Monty Williams
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.
- Catherine Marshall
Now I see a few campuses that are honest
- Gloria Steinem
Truth does not blush.
- Tertullian
In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.
- Joe Biden
Be truthful, one would say, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
- Virginia Woolf
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
- Charles Dickens
As politicians we ought not so much to ground our hopes on the reasonableness of the thing we ask, as on the reasonableness of the person whom we ask it: who would expect discretion from a fool, candor from a tyrant, or justice from a villain?
- Thomas Paine
The great poets are to be known by the absence in them of tricks, and by the justification of perfect personal candor. All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
- Walt Whitman
I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.
- Jimmy Carter