Best Candor Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: THE SILENCE THAT BROKE ME: I THRIVED IN THE PRESSURE COOKER — UNTIL I DROWNED

“The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous is its general nature; the more pains its constitution involves, the darker and more malign its total temper. To deny this would seem impossible, yet it is done daily; for there is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition; and candor and a sense of justice are, in such a case, the first things lost.”

Truth Pain Evil Justice Pleasure Good Superstition Candor

Book:The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One

Source: The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One

“He said what he meant and wasted no words.”

Truth Honesty Candor

Book:Brisingr

Source: Brisingr

“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady. Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.”

Honesty Sincerity Courtesy Civility Good Manners Candor

Author:Yukteswar Giri

“Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim.”

Honesty Straightforward Intimidation Candor Straightforwardness

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you.”

Honesty Trustworthy Candor Trusting

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“Instead of fleeing God scrutiny, David welcomed it. It's like he was saying, "Look God, since I can't hide from you, since you know my very thoughts before I think them, I want you to fully know me. Be in the very core, the essence of my being. If you're going to know me, then know everything about me!”

Honesty Transparency Relationship With God Candor

Book:10 Things Jesus Never Said: And Why You Should Stop Believing Them

Source: 10 Things Jesus Never Said: And Why You Should Stop Believing Them

“I don't make people comfortable but that's what couches are for.”

Truth Honesty Genuine Originality Candor

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“Do not allow your inner doubts to keep you from achieving what you can do.”

Source: The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness

“When your intuition is strong, follow it.”

Source: The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness

“Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.”

Source: The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness

“I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent”

Four Perfection Divergent Candor Tobias Test Tris Dauntless Abnegation Erudition Amity

Book:Divergent

Source: Divergent

“The tiles in the Merciless Mart are always black and white, and here they are in a checkered pattern. If I unfocus my eyes, I see exactly what the Candor don’t believe in—gray.”

Black White Four Gray Grey Candor Insurgent Tobias Tris Divergent Series Merciless Divergent 2 Mart

Book:Insurgent

Source: Insurgent

“Only strong women, and they seem to be rare, can handle a frank and direct woman who doesn't sweet-talk or need others to nerve her. You can identify the easily intimidated because they need a gaggle of like-minded clones to back them up when they feign offense, which is merely a guise for their insecurity.”

Strong Women Strength Direct Independence Alone Insecurity Frank Candor Clones

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“The ceremony was elegant and yet surprisingly intimate. The pastor read from Second Corinthians, and then Megan and Daniel recited vows they'd written together. They promised patience when it was easy to be impatient, candor when it was easier to lie, and in their own ways, each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.”

Commitment Patience Candor

Book:The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

“There is too wide a gap, for most of us, between what we say and what we mean. Between our words and our thoughts. The first thing the Prophet Isaiah said when he saw the living and exalted God was, “Woe is me, I am ruined. For I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips” (Isaiah 6:5). Isaiah was one of the most godly men who ever walked the earth. But seeing God, he sees also, abrupt and stark and grief-making, his own duplicity. Then God does what only God can do: he sears his lips clean (Isaiah 6:6-7). And herein lies our hope: truly seeing God, we truly see ourselves, in all our woe-begotten duplicity; but crying out to God, we are truly and greatly helped.”

Humility Holiness Candor

Author:Mark Buchanan

“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a stoical indifference to the fright afterward." Jefferson Davis's future wife describing him at first meeting.”

Fear Humility Stoicism Candor

Book:The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

Source: The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

“Essentially there are two actions in life: Performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which he will accept from yourself.”

Determination Excuses Candor

Author:Steven Brown

“What would it be like to admit that aloud - that you were angry, that the day had worn on you, to say those things, and to feel them, without worrying how they might look to whoever you were talking to? To let the ugly emotions you harbored, your anger and dissatisfaction and irritation, seep into your words without censoring them.”

Anger Candor Hiding Feelings Being Open Making Yourself Small

Book:When We Were Infinite

Source: When We Were Infinite

“Nothing in the world is harder than candour, and nothing is easier than flattery.”

Flattery Candor Candour

Book:Crime and Punishment

Source: Crime and Punishment

“By not conveying what needs to be conveyed to maintain some short-term harmony, you can also prevent others from making decisions that are informed and mature. This may cause many problems to remain unsolved or deteriorate, and you may even lose people’s trust and become less well-regarded by others.”

Relationships Candor Withholding Information Radical Honesty

Book:The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“When we are locked up between a mood of 'transparency' and a feel of 'discretion,' we must clear up our mental muddle, until we find the "golden ratio," and recognize the peak of 'candor.' By hitting the point of recognition and enlightenment, we can make a correct choice and follow the right track ("Unfulfilled meeting")”

Enlightenment Recognition Choice Mental Transparency Discretion Candor Muddle Golden Ratio Unfulfilled

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“I wonder what became of you, your Johnny Rotten skin, no Emerald City eyes. You'd have been a beauty if you let inferiority steam your glasses with its candor, sans laughter.”

Hope Beauty Poet Far Away Long Ago Inferiority Candor Editor Smug Johnny Rotten Emerald City

Author:Kristen Henderson, Of My Maiden Smoking

“A reprimand does not often repair underperformance. It takes coaching, culture and candor.”

Culture Leadership Motivational Quotes Airline Candor People Skills High Performance Team Builder

Book:Lead by choice, not by checks

Source: Lead by choice, not by checks

“[Vandenberg] said: "I do not know why we must be the only silent partner in this Grand Alliance. There seems to be no fear of disunity, no hesitation in Moscow, when Moscow wants to assert unilateral war and peace aims which collide with ours. There seems to be no fear of disunity, no hesitation in London, when Mr. Churchill proceeds upon his unilateral way to make decisions often repugnant to our ideas and ideals.... "Honest candor compels us to reassert in high places our American faith in the Atlantic Charter. These basic pledges cannot now be dismissed as a mere nautical nimbus. They march with our armies. They sail with our fleets...they sleep with our martyred dead. The first requisite of honest candor...is to relight this torch. "I am not prepared to guarantee permanently the spoils of an unjust peace. It will not work. I am prepared by effective international cooperation to do our full part in charting happier and safer tomorrows.”

War Peace United States United Nations Candor Ww2 Principle

Book:This kind of peace

Source: This kind of peace

“If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Loss Results Office Paper Messages Consequence Response Access Commit Magazines Boss Reporters Candor

Author:Ron Suskind

“I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy.”

Want Years Next Clear Four Policy Members Relation Administration Four Years Foreign Policy Committees Candor Bipartisan Foreign Relations

Author:George Voinovich

“Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought, that often distinguished Americans in earlier times and that is invariably the preeminent trait of great characters wherever it exists.”

Men States Character Political Found United United States Ambition Independence Traits Distinguished Manly Candor Great Character Political Ambition Independence Of Thought

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“The other matter to which we beg leave to refer in candor has been the anxiety shown for the Constitution and civil liberties because of alleged dictatorial, impatient and vindictive tendencies on our part. This concern is without basis in fact.”

Has Beens Matter Facts Anxiety Concern Bases Constitution Tendencies Ties Impatient Candor Vindictive

Book:New Hope for the Common Man: Speeches and Statements of President Diosado Macapagal

Source: New Hope for the Common Man: Speeches and Statements of President Diosado Macapagal

“Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.”

Problem Language Understanding Deals Infinite Insight Psychological Observation Variety Collections Frozen Spontaneity Candor Repetitive Jargon Idiom Formality Lexicon

Author:Richard Rosen

“Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.”

May Light Stars Darkness Mystery Succeed Ruins Thrown Deceit Fraud Suspicion Candor Stratagem

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.”

World Desire Artist Responsibility Duty Discipline Goodness Work Out Good Work Aesthetics Singularity Candor Muster Universality Radicalism

Book:Epicurean Simplicity

Source: Epicurean Simplicity

“Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.”

Poetry Individual Roles Manipulation Spontaneous Candor Brainwash

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence.”

Ifs Want Difficult Virtue Tests Creator Innocence Unconscious Candor

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.”

Faces Quality Simplicity Enthusiasm Charm Charming Face To Face Candor

Author:Agnes Repplier

“In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.”

Mind Humans Christianity Demand Simplicity Branches Candor Conceded

Book:The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence

Source: The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence

“I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. In all my public and private acts as your President, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.”

Believe Long Ends Home Government Together I Believe President Honesty Policy Civilization Truth Is Fellows Instinct Nightmare Openness Glue Unbroken Candor

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.”

Order Moral Subjects Circumstances Argument Occasions Compare Reasoning Candor Impartiality

Book:The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D.: With a Memoir of His Life [written by Himself]

Source: The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D.: With a Memoir of His Life [written by Himself]

“Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.”

Writing Strategy Candor

Book:The good word & other words

Source: The good word & other words

“The questions which for years were in dispute between the State and General Government, and which unhappily were not decided by the dictates of reason, but referred to the decision of war, having been decided against us, it is the part of wisdom to acquiesce in the result, and of candor to recognize the fact.”

Years War States Reason Facts Government Decision Results Decided Disputes Candor

Author:Robert E. Lee

“The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.”

Ifs May Problem Reality Truth Able Loss Opinion Prove Speech Solve Mortals Unlikely Candor

Author:Alexander Haig

“Pragmatism ... reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of 'being practical' as counter to which philosophical meditation as such was conceived.”

Spirit Culture Attitude Meditation Philosophical Practicals Prevailing Pragmatism Candor Disarming

Book:Eclipse of Reason

Source: Eclipse of Reason

“Ted, damned if I'm not impressed with your candor!”

Ifs Impressed Tigers Candor Lsu Not Impressed

Author:Les Miles

“If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. Now as always God discovers Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.”

Ifs Way Firsts Found Religious Effort Darkness Doubt Wise Childhood Essentials Approach Simplicity Determine Gods Will Thick Impress Simplify Babe Prudent Candor

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“You talk to me in parables. You may have known that I'm no wordy man, Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves Or fools that use them, when they want good sense; But honesty Needs no disguise nor ornament: be plain.”

Men Want Needs May Use Known Honesty Fine Fool Speech Instruments Disguise Good Sense Talk To Me Ornaments Parables Candor Knaves

Book:The Mourning Bride. A Tragedy

Source: The Mourning Bride. A Tragedy

“Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.”

World Mean Reason Products Ignorant Good Sense Candor Good Humor Good Nature Beneficence

Book:Select essays on the belles lettres

Source: Select essays on the belles lettres

“There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.”

Knows Men Way Deserve One Way Doing Nothing Concealed Candor Concealing

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

“It's so acceptably easy for a woman not to strive too hard, not to be too adventure-crazed, not to take too many risks, not to enjoy sex with full candor ... It isn't seemly for a woman to have that much zest.”

Hard Sex Easy Enjoy Risk Adventure Strive Candor Zest

Author:Diane Ackerman

“There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.”

Ifs Ideas Too Much Modern Married Divorce Upset Household Married Life Candor

Book:A Good Comb: The Sayings of Muriel Spark

Source: A Good Comb: The Sayings of Muriel Spark

“Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.”

May Littles Reading Vision Clear Security Fields Conscious Glasses Wide Tales Unconscious Outlook Diaries Closeness Gazing Candor

Book:Varia

Source: Varia

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