Transparent Quotes

• Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

  Theophile Gautier

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Eye

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• The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Clothes, Looks, Hmmm

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.65

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• For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.

  Marc Chagall

  Heart, Glasses, World

  Marc Chagall, Abram Markovich Ėfros, Benjamin Harshav, Barbara Harshav (2003). “Marc Chagall on Art and Culture: Including the First Book on Chagall's Art by A. Efros and Ya. Tugendhold (Moscow, 1918)”, p.145, Stanford University Press

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• Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

  Georg Buchner

  Government, People, Body

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.

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• True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original.

  Walter Benjamin

  Light, Shining, Doe

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• Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beautiful, Flower, Domes

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.97, Applewood Books

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• People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

  Phil McGraw

  Book, People, Should

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• The very purpose of our life is happiness, which is sustained by hope. We have no guarantee about the future, but we exist in the hope of something better. Hope means keeping going, thinking, ‘I can do this.’ It brings inner strength, self-confidence , the ability to do what you do honestly, truthfully and transparently.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Self Confidence, Thinking

  Facebook post, www.facebook.com. April 18, 2014.

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• In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

  Vera Nazarian

  Honesty, Heart, Dark

  "The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration: Old Wisdom for a New World". Book by Vera Nazarian, 2010.

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• I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgement.

  Pharrell Williams

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Judgement

  Interview with Mercedes La Rosa, uk.askmen.com.

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• People who live in transparent bodies shouldn't be so suspicious.

  Curt Siodmak

  Trust, People, Body

  "Fictional character: Maria Sorenson". "Invisible Agent", www.imdb.com. 1942.

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• If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Lakes, Soul, Depth

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• I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped, to be returned clean and wholesome in their slippery transparent cases. Better than confesssion any day. Here there is a true sense of rebirth, redemption, salvation.

  Fay Weldon

  Dirty, Clothes, Redemption

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• It's very important to be as transparent, as real as possible, as a person.

  Miguel Angel Silvestre

  Real, Important, Persons

  Source: www.towleroad.com

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• We should probably figure out a new word for this. For us, "open" means transparent, as in "open source" - you're not locked in to what the original creator did. And in our case "open" also means distributed decision making.

  Mitchell Baker

  Mean, Decision, Cases

  "Inside the Firefox’s Den". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. September 16, 2008.

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• The people of Ontario have a right to know how their dollars are being spent. Ontario has the leanest government in Canada while still providing high-quality public services that people can rely on. Today, we are releasing the 2014 Public Sector Salary Disclosure list as part of our government's commitment to be the most open and transparent government in the country.

  Deb Matthews

  Country, Commitment, Government

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• America can restore its strengths as the world-respected land of opportunity by returning to open-society principles. An open society invests in people and new ideas, rewards talent and hard work, values dialogue and learns from dissent, operates to high standards with transparent information, looks for common ground, sees problems as opportunities for creative change, and encourages those who are fortunate to help others get the same chance, because service is the highest ideal. With such standards in mind, America the Beautiful can return to its admired role as America the Principled.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Beautiful, Hard Work, Helping Others

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2007). “America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again”, p.8, Crown Business

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• Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.

  Jane Jacobs

  Government, People, Accountability

  Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.103, Vintage

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• It was not for the sake of oil that the risky decision to cease this corrupt coexistence was made. But at least now the Iraqi people have a chance of controlling their own main resource, and it will be our task to ensure that the funding and revenue are transparent instead of opaque.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Oil, People, Decision

  "Oleaginous" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. April 18, 2003.

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• Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Past, Thinking, Lakes

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

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• Some men promise to keep your secret and yet reveal it without knowing they are doing so; they do not wag their lips, and yet they are understood; it is read on their brow and in their eyes; it is seen through their breast; they are transparent.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Eye, Men, Knowing

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• I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.

  John Updike

  Beautiful, Taken, Perfect

  John Updike (1990). “Rabbit Angstrom: a tetralogy”, Everyman's Library

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• We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Miracle, Lasts, Mysterious

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “Miscellany”

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• The United States has the best, deepest, widest, and most transparent capital markets in the world which give you, the investor, the ability to buy and sell large amounts at very cheap prices. That is a good thing.

  Jamie Dimon

  Giving, World, United States

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• The era of television in which I grew up was much simpler than now. Its conventions were quite transparent and fun to think about. Who could ever remember the plot of those shows?

  Joe Bradley

  Fun, Thinking, Plot

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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