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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin. -- Tacitus
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. -- Peggy Noonan
Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place. -- Alan Dershowitz
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman. -- James F. Cooper
Candor is the brightest gem of criticism. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting. -- Robert Herrick
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
There is no diplomacy like candor. -- E. V. Lucas
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. -- Walt Whitman
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. -- Madame de Stael
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. -- Russell Lynes
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
Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people. -- James Bovard
Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present. -- Asa Gray
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
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. -- Gerald R. Ford
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
There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin. -- Simon Greenleaf
Candor disarms paranoia. -- Allen Ginsberg
Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin -- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness. -- Marshall McLuhan
The painter saw what was, an alternate Candor and secrecy inside the skin. -- Thom Gunn
The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs. -- Veronica Roth
Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us. -- Veronica Roth
Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer. -- Jack Welch
The Dauthless have the wierdest slang. Pansycake, Nose...is there a term for The Candor?" "Of course."Uriah grins."Jerks -- Veronica Roth
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
It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions about photography that matter most to me. -- Richard Avedon
I have to admit that Christina is good?though I don't like giving credit to Candor smart-mouths?and so is Peter?though I don't like giving credit to future psychopaths. -- Veronica Roth
Little girl, he called me. A little girl who is stressed out to the point of paranoia. That is not me, but now, it's who the Candor think I am. -- Veronica Roth
Candor toward a brother must not be mistaken for confession. The latter is made to the Lord of heaven and earth in the presence of a man is authorized to hear it. -- Brother Roger
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. -- Alexander Pope
Candor is the only way I know how to do it. I'm way too old to change. At the end of the day, I believe the truth is stronger than any lie that's out there. -- Ray Nagin
Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve. -- Veronica Roth
And he's right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain; the Amity, peaceful but passive; the Candor, honest but inconsiderate; the Abnegation, selfless but stifling. -- Veronica Roth
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
This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. "In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives. -- Veronica Roth
Candor compels me to admit that I have no conclusive research to support my view that jingles are less persuasive than the spoken word. You'd run like hell if a salesman came to your door and began singing at you. Why do it in advertising? -- David Ogilvy
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
Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.'â?¦ â??Those who blamed ignorance became the Erudite.'â?¦ â??Those who blamed duplicity created Candor.'â?¦ â??Those who blamed selfishness made Abnegation.'â?¦ â??And those who blamed cowardice were the Dauntless. -- Veronica Roth
... the basic principles of the military services are unchangeable. Courage and candor, obedience and comradeship, love of fatherland and loyalty to the State: these are ever the distinguishing characteristics of the soldier and sailor. Building character through intelligent training and education is always the first and greatest goal. -- Erich Raeder
We expect candor and transparency from the president, from the administration. -- Mitt Romney
I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there. -- James Polshek
I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers. -- John O. Brennan
Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives. -- Alex Berenson
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
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
All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability - the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths. -- John Gerzema
In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence. -- John J. Sirica
The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books in 1559, and its author was denounced on the Elizabethan stages of London as the 'Evil Machiavel.' The outrage has not dimmed with time. -- Michael Ignatieff
His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party simplistic, opportunistic and misguided. Reagan was surrounded by some very smart people who gave him very sound advice. They were not wondering where certain countries are on the map. -- Eugene Jarecki
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
If you reward candor, you'll get it. -- Jack Welch
Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness. -- Karen Allen
Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again? -- Leo Tolstoy
Ted, damned if I'm not impressed with your candor! -- Les Miles
Demand candor from commanding officers, and weigh heavily their recommendations. -- Steve Womack
A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me. -- Antonio Porchia
Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy. -- Wilfrid Sheed
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation. -- Glenn Close
I donâ??t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble. -- Don DeLillo
Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash. -- Allen Ginsberg
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor. -- Agnes Repplier
Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power. -- Herb Kohl
The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts. -- Warren E. Burger
Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul. -- Adlai Stevenson I
Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism. -- Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine, A certain inspitation which I cannot well define. -- Eugene Field
In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality. -- Nathanael Emmons
Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career. -- Jack Welch
Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare. -- Wendell Berry
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. -- Agnes Repplier
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence. -- Kenneth Rexroth
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 -- Muriel Spark
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 ... -- Muriel Spark
I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of international affairs. -- David Brooks
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. -- John Dryden
The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation. -- Glenn Close
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. -- Max Horkheimer
She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom. -- Kate Chopin
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. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it frustrates teams and bosses to no end. -- Jack Welch
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
In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest. -- Gordon B. Hinckley

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