An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON CANDOR
Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.
Thomas B. Aldrich (1836-1907, American writer, editor)
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
William Blake (1757-1827, British poet, painter)
It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600, Italian philosopher, scientist)
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.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister)
There is no wisdom like frankness.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister)
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 (1819-1880, British novelist)
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 (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
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 (1840-1928, British novelist, poet)
There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830, British essayist)
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 (1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author)
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 (1741-1801, Swiss theologian, mystic)
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
George MacDonald (1824-1905, Scottish novelist)
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977, American comic actor)
It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980, Canadian communications theorist)
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne (1533-1592, French philosopher, essayist)
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George Orwell (1903-1950, British author, "Animal Farm")
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
Publilius Syrus (85 BC- 43BC, Roman writer)
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