Quotes About Transparency

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

I was living a life of a lie. I really was.

Say what you mean, be who you are, and hope for the best.

My Twitter reflects what's going on with me in my life.

People have presences, both online and in real life. You can choose to show everything, meaning all sides of you, or you can choose to be selective.

A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others.

Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would've told them anyway!

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." [ Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America ; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, February 26, 1962]

The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent.

Just wanted you to know, there's been no . . . funny business between me and your mam. No . . . hanky-panky, if you know what I mean?" For

Careful. The easiest thing to spot is gaps of integrity in others.

I look out at the world through your transparent face...

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to the sun.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Our truest self is often the person we allow no one else to see—who we are when we are alone. In the real world, we edit. We compromise and prevaricate.

We've got to tell the unvarnished truth

accountability. Now there is a word with a solid – indeed a solemn – pedigree. The Good Book itself tells us that on the Day of Judgement everyone shall be required to give an account of themselves.

Your skin is transparent as distilled moonlight

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.