Quotes About Transparency

Trust is like glass. You think you can see through it, that you know what's on the other side of it. You pretend you know your partner and that he knows you. But it's all an illusion. One day you bump against it and it cracks and you cut yourself and you bleed.

These books sank without a trace, or faded fast, because they tell the sort of truths that Madison and Jefferson believed our Constitution should protect—truths that the people have the right to know, and needs to know, about our government and other powers that keep us in the dark.

Instead of making a change and expecting others to just accept it, take time to explain the why behind the decision, including alternatives, and why the final choice made the most sense. If you can ask for ideas and input ahead of time, it's even better. Finally, acknowledge how the decision will affect everyone.

Transparency and openness also make people feel like they are trusted, respected, and connected to their organization—instead of being told what to do and kept in the dark.

Home should never be dark or full of shadows and secrets. It should be bright and full of open doors. It should be full of stories wanting to be told.

En ocasiones, revelar la medida justa de la verdad era mejor que mentir descaradamente.

The best of all lost arts is honesty

Signora, there's nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one's own heart….

there's nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one's own heart...

And truth is indivisible, it shines with its own transparency and does not allow itself to be diminished by our interests or our shame.

Everyone was poor, but it was out in the open, not tucked out of sight below bridges.

Political slogans are like grain scattered to draw birds into a snare. Find out who's putting up the money for a political party, and then you know what it will do.

defect in education for democracy, that the people knew so much about the politicians and so little about the men who made the politicians and paid their fares on the bandwagon.

Crises expose realities and strip away obfuscation and misdirection.

Time is a transparent medium. People and cities arise out of it, move through it and disappear back into it. It is time that brings them and time that takes them away.

God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.

La vérité est comme le soleil, elle fait tout voir et ne se laisse pas regarder.

No corruption is possible with the diamond.

He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a cloud in this crystal.

A reflection from this heaven shone upon the bishop. But it was also a luminous transparency, for this heaven was within him: this heaven was his conscience.

To love someone is to make them transparent.

God is behind all things, but all things conceal God. Objects are black and humans are opaque. To love a person is to render them transparent

Open, nevertheless.

Toat? f?ptura Cosettei era naivitate, nevinov??ie, transparen??, alb, candoare, str?lucire. S-ar fi putut spune despre Cosette c? e un cer limpede. R?spândea o prospeÈ›ime de aprilie È™i zori de zi. În ochii ei era rou?. Cosette era o întrupare a luminii aurorei în chip de femeie.