Candor Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Ron Suskind

  Writing, Loss, Office

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• Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

  Madame de Stael

  Quality, Noble, Genius

  "Germany". Book by Madame de Stael, 1813.

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• Why is your heart racing Tris?

  Veronica Roth

  Heart, Racing, Tris

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• Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Self, Political, Soul

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• Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.

  Anne Rice

  Lying, Believe, Purpose

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Wolf Gift”, p.537, Random House

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• There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.

  William Hazlitt

  Mind, Body, Exposure

  'Sketches and Essays' (1839) 'On Disagreeable People'

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• You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Art, Men, Noses

  "Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).

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• 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.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Simplicity, Mind, Demand

  Simon Greenleaf (1995). “The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence”, p.12, Kregel Publications

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• 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.

  George Voinovich

  Years, Four, Want

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• To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Views, Cheerful

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.683, Xist Publishing

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• If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

  Sarah Fielding

  Modesty, Judgment, Reader

  Sarah Fielding (1986). “The cry (1754)”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• THE LONG WALK is a raw, wrenching, blood-soaked chronicle of the human cost of war. Brian Castner, the leader of a military bomb disposal team, recounts his deployment to Iraq with unflinching candor, and in the process exposes crucial truths not only about this particular conflict, but also about war throughout history. Castner's memoir brings to mind Erich Maria Remarque's masterpiece, All Quiet on the Western Front.

  Jon Krakauer

  Military, War, Team

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Jul 09, 2012

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

  Nathanael Emmons

  Order, Moral, Argument

  Nathanael Emmons (1842). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D.: With a Memoir of His Life [written by Himself]”, p.496

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• Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic society presupposes confidence and candor in the relations of men with one another and eager collaboration for the larger ends of life instead of the pursuit of petty, selfish or vainglorious aims.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Freedom, Selfish, Men

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• My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Careers, Boss

  Jack Welch, Suzy Welch (2009). “Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

  Jason Epstein

  Distance, Editors, Patient

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• The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.

  Edmund Burke

  Money, Foundation, Use

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1560, Delphi Classics

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• I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Writing, Court, Members

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.11, Vintage

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• Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.’… ‘Those who blamed ignorance became the Erudite.’… ‘Those who blamed duplicity created Candor.’… ‘Those who blamed selfishness made Abnegation.’… ‘And those who blamed cowardice were the Dauntless.

  Veronica Roth

  Ignorance, Duplicity, Selfishness

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• Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing

  Abraham Maslow

  Honesty, Generosity, Common Sense

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• 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.

  Thomas Otway

  Honesty, Men, Needs

  William Congreve, James Miller, Henry Fielding, David Garrick, Thomas Southern (1815). “The Mourning Bride. A Tragedy”

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• Thank you for your honesty.

  Veronica Roth

  Honesty

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• Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.

  Robert Herrick

  Sincere, Evermore

  Robert Herrick (1856). “Hesperides Or The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick”, p.258

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• Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Childhood, Quiet, You Again

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• And if candor strikes to forcefully, step back, draw careful breath, and consider the angle your words must take before you open your mouth, let them leak out. Because once you tilt the truth, it becomes a lie.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Lying, Tilt, Mouths

  Ellen Hopkins (2014). “Tilt”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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