(178 votes)   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

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(154 votes)   Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.

Thomas B. Aldrich
1836-1907, American Writer, Editor

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(131 votes)   There is no wisdom like frankness.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(119 votes)   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

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(108 votes)   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

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(106 votes)   Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(106 votes)   Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(101 votes)   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

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(100 votes)   There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.

William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist

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(87 votes)   Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arabian Proverb
Sayings of Arabian Origin

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(87 votes)   It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

Marshall Mcluhan
1911-1980, Canadian Communications Theorist

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