Quotes About Transparency

Is not art then a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes? What a backwards contention it is to claim that life is more important than art! Life is good as long as it holds up to art: That in life which cannot be employed for art's sake is kitsch!

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

I've been keeping up appearances all my life. Now I'm going in for realities.

She spoke out, with plainness and directness. When you had to deal a mortal blow, why try to lighten it?

This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.

there was certainly no need of fine-tooth combs in this case.

Don't Ask a Question You Don't Want the Answer To

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. —Groucho Marx

transparent with you…" "I wouldn't have guessed." "We received a package yesterday with a zip drive of Owen's work emails. I had to verify they were real, and they are. He kept

But there was nothing more transparent to her than the fear of not being loved, the fear of being unseen, of being ignored.

He leaned closer. "Don't lie to me, Caramia. I don't like it.

Half the troubles in life come from pretending to oneself that one is a better and finer human being than one is';

Silence is not a lie. A sin of omission, but not a lie.

But coming halfway clean was a time- honored way of continuing to lie.

The false innocence you render for them by censoring truth protects only you.

Madam, there is no treachery in the truth. There may be pain, but to face honestly all possible conclusions formed by a set of facts is the noblest route possible for a human being." Holmes could be surprisingly empathetic at times

Madam, there is no treachery in the truth. There may be pain, but to face honestly all possible conclusions formed by a set of facts is the noblest route possible for a human being.

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

Transparency and detail are everything in science.

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!