Quote: Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.
Author: Thomas B. Aldrich 1836-1907, American Writer, Editor
Quote: Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
Author: William Blake 1757-1827, British Poet, Painter
Quote: 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.
Author: James F. Cooper 1789-1851, American Novelist
Quote: ''Frank and explicit'' -- that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: There is no wisdom like frankness.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: 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.
Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: A ''No'' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ''Yes'' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
Quote: If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!
Author: Thomas Hardy 1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet
Quote: There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: 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.
Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: 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.
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic
Quote: Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
Author: George Macdonald 1824-1905, Scottish Novelist
Quote: It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
Author: Marshall Mcluhan 1911-1980, Canadian Communications Theorist
Quote: Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
Author: George Orwell 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''
Quote: Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Author: Arabian Proverb Sayings of Arabian Origin