Quotes About Transparency

Never under any circumstances do an action which could be called in question if known to the world.

Just remember that the most important thing is to be truthful to yourself. If you hang on to that, you won't go far wrong.

I can't deal with hidden undertows or unspoken feelings.

He couldn't deceive himself. He always looked things in the eye and never pretended that what he saw was not really happening.

The only basis for real fellowship with God and man is to live out in the open with both. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another. To

While we are in that condition of darkness, we cannot have true fellowship with our brother either--for we are not real with him, and no one can have fellowship with an unreal person.

It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.

She believed that friendships, to begin well, had to stand on mutual information and lots of it.

He hadn't lied. He honestly liked her house, for the same reasons he was drawn to the woman. There was no artifice about either one.

The fragment of glass with the blood on its edge, as it soaked up the dawn air, was almost transparent. It was a boundless blue, almost transparent. I stood up, and as I walked toward my own apartment, I thought, I want to become like this glass. And then I want to reflect this smooth white curving myself. I want to show other people these splendid curves reflected in me.

Sería muy interesante que alguien investigara en qué medida los sistemas de comunicación de masas trabajan al servicios de la información y hasta qué punto al servicio del silencio. ¿Qué abunda más, lo que se dice o lo que se calla?

No hagas nada en secreto, porque el tiempo lo ve todo y lo oye todo, y lo revela todo.

Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?

As the sea, when it lies calm and deeply transparent, yearns for heaven, so may the pure heart, when it is calm and deeply transparent, yearn for the Good.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Full revelation, she couldn't help feeling, was something which was considered a virtue only among the reckless or the cruel.

A little bird whispers in my ear: Be fair! Nobody, no country, has a monopoly of untruth.

the age of information, my dear," my mother said with justifiable pride when they had done their work at their computers, "everyone's garbage is on display for all to see, and all you need to know is how to look.

Honest people are a refuge: You know they mean what they say; you know they will not say one thing to your face and another behind your back; you know they will tell you when they think you have failed—and for this reason their praise cannot be mistaken for mere flattery.

Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity.

To lie is to intentionally mislead others when they expect honest communication.

A wasteland of embarrassment and social upheaval can be neatly avoidedby following a single precept in life: Do not lie

How would your relationships change if you resolved never to lie again? What truths about yourself might suddenly come into view? What kind of person would you become? And how might you change the people around you? It is worth finding out.

Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. We can simply be ourselves.