“ A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. ”
- George MacDonald- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
- 2K
“ We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate. ”
- William James- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant. ”
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich- Copy
- 150
“ It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
- 513
“ There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 1.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 222
“ 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- Copy
- 42
“ You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 1.7K
“ We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence. ”
- Andre Maurois- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ 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 Fenimore Cooper- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
- 880
“ Because they are generated in what may seem to be a very comfortable setting, the frequent candor has led to multitudes of embarrassing moments. ”
- Martha Stewart- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Candor is always a double-edged sword; it may heal or it may separate. ”
- Wilhelm Stekel- Copy
- 2.6K
“ We've got to have candor and talk about these things while we reject wild hypotheses. ”
- William Bennett- Copy
- 3K
“ Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin. ”
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. ”
- John Christian Bovee- Copy
- 2.1K
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