Our Friends
Candor Quotes
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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. (Quote by - Sarah Fielding)
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. (Quote by - Simon Greenleaf)
Karma has written on George Bush's face. It has sculpted trixoypurine uric acid lines in his brow like music scales with no notes It has painted his face the red of cholesterol blockage It has constricted his right eye.. Time has sculpted Dick Cheney's face. His lip curls with contempt for others. His eyes evade the searchlight of truth. We pray that God give them and all beings mercy.. as God now removes them from an office through which they harm hundreds of millions of other beings. (Quote by - O Anna Niemus)
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. (Quote by - Gerald R. Ford)
Candor is the brightest gem of criticism. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
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. (Quote by - 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. (Quote by - Asa Gray)
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. (Quote by - Peggy Noonan)
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. (Quote by - William James)
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. (Quote by - George Macdonald)
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. (Quote by - George Voinovich)
Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant. (Quote by - Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
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. (Quote by - Simon Greenleaf)