Quotes About Transparency

I'm not going to be hypocritical, I'm going to be honestly critical

Quite simply, if God knows me better than I know myself, what point is there [in] pretending I am other than I am before God? Prayer is not the place for pretended piety; prayer is the place for getting down to brass tacks. . . . Thus we might as well acknowledge our true state when we pray. We pray to God from where we are, not from where we consider we should be. And God, who knows us where we are, can lead us to where we can be.17

We build too many walls to be honest with ourselves. -Allanon

Secrets are destructive; the truth, even when hard to hear and harder to bear, is better.

We build too many walls to be completely honest with ourselves.

I'm sorry, Lord Rahl, but I don't think you are the kind of man who would want me to tell you anything other than the truth." Richard stared into Samantha's dark eyes. "No, I wouldn't. Only the truth can help us.

Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain't it...

And these are your reasons, my lord? Do you think I have others? said Lord Vetinari. My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent. Hughnon reflected that 'entirely transparent' meant either that you could see right through them or that you couldn't see them at all.

When people say clearly something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

But I think you have a right to know what it is you're not being told.

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.]

but William felt in his bones that you couldn't run a city on the basis of what the Watch liked. The Watch would probably like it if everyone spent their time indoors, with their hands on the table where people could see them.

Best to get it off his chest. Own up like a man. Take his medicine. Cards on table. Beating about bush, none of. Mercy, throw himself on.

No one seems to have noticed that a loss of a sense of shame means a loss of privacy; a loss of privacy means a loss of intimacy; and a loss of intimacy means a loss of depth. There is, in fact, no better way to produce shallow and superficial people than to let them live their lives entirely in the open, without concealment of anything.

In many cases where one is content to lead a secluded life it is not necessary to say much of one's past, but as a rule something must be said. People have the habit of inquiring—if they are no more than butchers and bakers. By degrees one must account for this and that fact, and it was so here. .

I don't journal that much, honestly.

I don't really trust politicians, and our job is to call them out. It's old-school journalism.

I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.

I have a degree in journalism, which is something that I make very clear very frequently just so people are aware of it. I went to school to write... Editorial integrity is very important to me.

I'm doing real journalism.

A louder government with less journalism does not enrich our democratic process.

My view of journalism is that it needs to be independent but it's not independent when someone is paying the bills for you.

I fully acknowledge that I am not a journalist.

Trust is the most important aspect of being a journalist. If people don't trust or find you relatable - you will not have success.