Quotes About Transparency

Sometimes our subconscious is so transparent it's boring

I was always a little disturbed by him because I'd never heard him tell a lie. That was horrifying to me, like living in a house with every door and window wide open all day long.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

It's become the incredible shrinking presidency in terms of access, and in my opinion, we are all being shortchanged.

A glass devil is a person in whom evil becomes transparent. People simply don't see it, despite the fact that it's there all the time.

And because I didn't have the moral backbone to say, "I don't know," I explained the whole thing to her—off the top of my head.

honest feedback is a must. What we don't know will hurt us.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

You ought to live in such a way that you would be perfectly happy to have everything that you do known. And if you don't do that, maybe you'd better change a little bit.

Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

The pursuit of transparency and connectivity in all aspects of existence, by destroying privacy, inhibits the development of personalities with the strength to take lonely decisions.

All the world wants to help Nepal and vast sums of aid have been lavished on the country, yet much of it seems to have disappeared without trace, leaving only faded signs and notice-boards behind.

You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.

Truth dont require the aid ov elegant and high stepping words, tew express its force, or buty, it iz like water, tastes better out ov a wooden bucket, than it duz out ov a golden goblet.

Now one often saw only her face and body, while her soul was not seen at all.

All the wounds of society, the wounds of poverty, of vice, of ignorance—all will be laid bare. Is there not something re-assuring in this?

A country cannot live in disorder, incompetence, irresponsibility, uncertainty, and corruption.

I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

I am so sad, Eleanor, so sad that my body has become transparent, I've shed so many tears. Is it possible to dissolve into water without leaving a trace?

I've yet to meet the person who aspires to be phony or invisible in her closest relationships.

She said that in writing anything, you must be perfectly honest.

Truth has nutritional value.