Noun
Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence.
A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity.
Source: Webster's dictionaryInnocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. Peggy Noonan
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. Gerald Ford
I don't want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble. Don DeLillo
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. Walt Whitman
Pragmatism ... reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of ‘being practical' as counter to which philosophical meditation as such was conceived. Max Horkheimer