Quotes About Transparency

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you.

Packets don't lie.

Honesty wins the day" is one of my favorite made-up mantras, and I needed it then.

Eres la más opaca de todos los opacos

The thing about death is that it's honest.

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

I think humans are only capable of small moments of honesty. Then they get tired and back away. It's something to foster, this ability to keep it for longer. How to keep being honest and aware.

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.

Time is a ribbon, a delicate organdy, so thin that you can see through it to the layer of time below and the layer above. Moments overlapping, lying on top of each other.

Very few people want to hear the truth. Bogie was like that, my mother was like that, and I'm like that. I believe in the truth, and I believe in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering all the time or playing a game with people? I just don't believe in that. So I'm not the most adored person on the face of the earth.

If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.

And that's when I realize the thing about the truth. It always comes out, no matter what you do.

If there's one thing I've realized, it's that you have to be honest. Even if you're scared, even if you're worried that you're going to get your heart stomped on, even if you think that the truth is going to ruin everything, you have to put it out there. Because otherwise, you're fucked.

NEVER LIE TO SOMEONE WHO IS LIKELY TO SEE RIGHT THROUGH YOU.

I like to know exactly what's being put into my food.

Sometimes the things we hide—aren't the parts of us that matter most.

I wish I could say that I'm totally healed; but that would be a lie. This much I can say: I'm as straightforward and transparent as I'm capable of being. In the recovery process, I've searched relentlessly for total healing. I don't know if that labels me quick or slow, truly open or slightly self-deceived.

Era tão fácil (...) descobrir coisas sobre as pessoas. Estava tudo disponível, tudo sobre elas. Bastava procurar. Era possível descobrir qualquer coisa sobre alguém caso se esforçasse para isso.

The practice of meditation is to see the transparency of this shield. But we cannot immediately start dealing with the basic ignorance itself; that would be like trying to push a wall down all at once. If we want to take this wall down, we must take it down brick by brick; we start with immediately available material, a stepping-stone. So the practice of meditation starts with the emotions and thoughts, particularly with the thought process.

Be courageous enough to be honest.

And perhaps most I loved this about her, her helpless way, love it still, how she can't hide a single thing, that she looks hurt when she is hurt, seems happy when happy. That I know at every moment the precise place where she stands. What else can move a man like me, who would find nothing as siren or comforting?

ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech.

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.