Quotes About Transparency

It's bloody hard telling the truth all the time.

The best thing in the world is the truth. You find it out anyway, in the end, or sooner.

How many books do we read from which the writer lacked courage to tie off the umbilical cord? How many gifts do we open from which the writer neglected to remove the price tag? Is it pertinent, is it courteous, for us to learn what it cost the writer personally?

I didn't obscure anything, I just left it out.

To grow old is to fade, to become transparent.

As incisively pointed out in the documentary 'Food Inc.', an overwhelmingly large percentage of 'new,' 'healthy,' and 'organic' alternative food products are actually owned by the same parent companies that scared us into the organic aisle in the first place. They got you comin' and goin' has never been truer.

So I didn't have time to craft artful lies and evasions even if I'd wanted to.

But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it. It's all here: the good, the bad and the ugly.

As pessoas do mundo da restauração podem gostar ou não gostar do que vou contar, mas saberão muito bem que não estarei a mentir.

If you never tell a lie, then you never have to play dumb

Far from starting with the premise that the authorities tell the truth, a depressingly large number of people now accept as a given that the government constantly lies. If it does not actively lie, many are persuaded, it conceals the truth.

But are no other portraits necessary? Should we not be taught to see the men and women among whom we really live,—men and women such as we are ourselves,—in order that we should know what are the exact failings which oppress ourselves, and thus learn to hate, and if possible to avoid in life the faults of character which in life are hardly visible, but which in portraiture of life can be made to be so transparent.

CHAPTER LV 'I HAVE TOLD HIM EVERYTHING

When a man says to you, "Let us be candid with each other," you feel instinctively that he desires to squeeze you without giving a drop of water himself.

He was only aware of the conflict that was slowly destroying his integrity—the conflict between truth, and concealment of truth.

In Lys, it seemed, all love began with mental contact, and it might be months or years before a couple actually met. In this way, Hilvar explained, there could be no false impressions, no deceptions, on either side. Two people whose minds were open to one another could hide no secrets.

First rule of government of the people, by the people, for the people: Never tell the people!

Just remember, the mass of the people in China have little or no idea what their leaders are up to, and even less control.

What have you to confess now? It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together.

There is no treachery in the truth. There may be pain, but to face honestly all possible conclusions formed by a set of facts is the noblest route possible for a human being

Just tell us the truth

I think we are only afraid of ourselves, the doctor said slowly. No, Luke said. Of seeing ourselves clearly and without disguise.

People, the doctor said sadly, are always so anxious to get things out into the open where they can put a name to them, even a meaningless name, so long as it has something of a scientific ring.

I keep thinking I am right on the point of telling someone all about myself.