Quotes About Transparency

I don't think anyone's private life stands up to public scrutiny.

There's something so naked about being on stage as a musician. I think about that even with standup comedy or something - like, 'This is it, this is what I got.'

Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent.

Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.

Give a man free hands, and you'll know where to find them.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

Women love an honest man.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

It is impossible for a man to conceal himself. In every act, word or gesture he stands revealed as he is, and not as he would have himself appear to be. From the Universe, nothing is or an be hidden.

What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency.

Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

Never suppose that either the evil or the good that you do will remain secret, however strict may be your enclosure.

I love the body. Flesh is so honest, and organs do not lie.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. —JEROME, A.D. 324–420

People are anxious to know the real you. Take the risk to let others into your world. You have the skills and knowledge to be an excellent communicator. Don't be afraid to confidently and genuinely engage those around you.