Candid Quotes

• Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Truth, Political, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.271, Cambridge University Press

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• If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Advice

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Smile, Profound, Shining

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.34, Verso

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• Be candid with everyone.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Planning, Management

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• I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.

  Pamela Anderson

  Liars, Lying, Reality

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• Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

  Lawrence Wilkerson

  Party, Racist, Let Me

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• I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.

  Rose Kennedy

  Unattractive

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• A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Spirit, Dogmatism, Persistent

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

  "You Might Be a Cowgirl If . . .: A Guide to Life on the Range" by Jill Charlotte Stanford, Robin L. Corey, Globe Pequot, (p. 111), September 4, 2012.

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• Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

  Oscar Wilde

  Should

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• I call it like I see it. I don't hold back when it comes to being candid on the hot issues.

  Jerry Doyle

  Issues, Hot, Back When

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• We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

  Andre Maurois

  Love, Appreciation, Quality

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• Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Criticism, Blame

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Miscellaneous poems. The good-natured man. She stoops to conquer; or, the Mistakes of a night. An oratorio. Prefaces. [Criticisms”, p.218

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• The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Liars, Candid Camera, Cameras

  Lincoln Kirstein (2012). “Walker Evans: American Photographs: Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition”, The Museum of Modern Art

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• ...candid still photography had taken over... What was interesting was that the photographs came without any intention of instructing you... You're like a cat looking out the window. You don't have to even know what you're watching, but you're watching it, and you're watching it very accurately.

  D. A. Pennebaker

  Photography, Taken, Cat

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• People are afraid because I'm candid. They're always worried I'm going to get into trouble.

  Steve Madden

  People, Trouble, Worried

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• If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Funny, Life, Might

  "8 Hilariously Candid Quotes By Jennifer Lawrence" by Aly Weisman, www.businessinsider.com. February 5, 2013.

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• I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Looks, Stamps, Brows

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• You know what, I'm not ashamed of anything that happened. I fall in love really hard, I do. I go deep. That person is it for me. And I love hard, and when it's over, it's over, and some people make mistakes. I wouldn't call it a mistake, it just is what happened in my life, so I'm excited to see what the future holds. It happened, and now I have to say I'm happier than I've ever been.

  Kaley Cuoco

  Falling In Love, Mistake, People

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• Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

  Mika

  Normal, Normal Life, Feels

  "The Nowhere Boy: Mika Finds Confidence in Coming Out". Interview with Zack Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.

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• 'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.

  Judith Martin

  Honesty, Talking, Names

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• The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.

  Robert Browning

  Christian, Atheism, Late

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.391, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea.

  Sidney Lanier

  Simple, Sea, Sky

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.16, University of Georgia Press

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• To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

  Jerry West

  Sports, Money, Hurt

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• Don't hide bad news. With multiple information channels available, bad news always becomes known. Be candid right from the start.

  John C. Maxwell

  News, Information, Credibility

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