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A true party-man hates and despises candour. -- Adam Smith
I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child. -- Claude Debussy
We also believe candour benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads often in public eventually misleads himself in private. -- Warren Buffett
The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of the dining car, and the certain knowledge that neither of us would see each other again. -- Paul Theroux
Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible -- Samuel Johnson
Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour. -- Tom Hanks
Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT of the MOON, even to drams, scruples and grains-nay, to the very fraction of a grain!-I wish there were infallible experiments to ascertain the quantum of brains each man possesses, and every man's integrity and candour:-This is a desideratum in science which is most of all wanted. -- Robert Sutton Harrington
God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves. -- Stanley Hauerwas
I'm halfway through Patti Smith's memoir 'Just Kids,' which is heart-stoppingly vivid. It drips with beauty and hope and devastating candour. I don't want it to end. -- Hattie Morahan

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