Candor Quotes
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Care without candor creates dysfunctional relationships. Candor without care creates distant relationships.
— John C. Maxwell
I could tell him I've been worried for weeks about what the aptitude test will tell me - Abnegation, Candor, Erudite, Amity, or Dauntless?
— Veronica Roth
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
— Madame De Stael
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.
— Alan Dershowitz
Since we're all snails riding on the razor's edge, we might as well say it as it is.
— Peter Tieryas
We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood.
— A.W. Tozer
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
I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.
— John O. Brennan
Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass, don't you know.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career.
— Jack Welch
There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If you reward candor, you'll get it.
— Jack Welch
One of the advantages of of this
is that dying men are allowed complete and brutal candor. — Bill Willingham
In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.
— Nathanael Emmons
It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.
— John C. Maxwell
Small truths have greater power than big lies.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.
— Allen Ginsberg
Gray stones for Abnegation, water for Erudite, earth for Amity, lit coals for Dauntless, and glass for Candor.
— Veronica Roth
There is no diplomacy like candor.
— E. V. Lucas
I grin at the fierce burn in my legs, in my chest.Using pain to relieve pain. It doesn't make much sense.
— Veronica Roth
Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.
— Adlai Stevenson I
Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The writer's voice, the honesty and candor that is present in that voice, is what must be written upon the page.
— Edmond Rostand
I don't make people comfortable but that's what couches are for.
— Donna Lynn Hope
There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine,A certain inspitation which I cannot well define. — Eugene Field
Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.
— Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
In a few minutes nobody will know what I did. Everything will be perfect again. Except for my life.[Oscar Banks] — Pam Bachorz
Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.
— Veronica Roth
A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
— Antonio Porchia
Candor generates trust. Trust is the basis on which real change, constructive change, is made.
— Joe Biden
Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.
— Alex Berenson
The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.
— Warren E. Burger
Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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 disarms paranoia.
— Allen Ginsberg
Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Essentially there are two actions in life: Performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which he will accept from yourself.
— Steven Brown
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
Candor is never indiscreet. Truth, which is to say, the reflection of life, is beautiful.
— Jack Vance
Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.
— Joy Davidman
Honesty is always the best policy.
— George Washington
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
— Russell Lynes
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
— Agnes Repplier
General Gau had thanked for her candor in this as in all other things and then went ahead and did it anyway.
— John Scalzi
If I unfocus my eyes, I see exactly what the Candor don't believe in-gray. Maybe Tobias and I don't believe in it either. Not really.
— Veronica Roth
The Dauthless have the wierdest slang. Pansycake, Nose ... is there a term for The Candor?""Of course."Uriah grins."Jerks — Veronica Roth
Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.
— Karen Allen
What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.
— Clifford Geertz
Dauntless is the cruelest of the fiveThey tear each other to pieces ...
Erudite is the coldest of the five
Knowledge is a costly thing ... — Veronica Roth
Childhood candor ... shall I ever find you again?
— Leo Tolstoy
I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.
— James Polshek
The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.
— Veronica Roth
Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim.
— Donna Lynn Hope
I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent
— Veronica Roth
