CANDOR

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!
Thomas Hardy

There is no wisdom like frankness.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.
Thomas B. Aldrich

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
Benjamin Disraeli

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arabian Proverbs

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

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

There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
William Hazlitt

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
Marshall Mcluhan