Transparent Quotes - Page 12

• A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Husband, Father, Views

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.537, Vintage

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The self identity of Man is transcultural, and thus cannot have any single point of reference. Pluralism is not synonymous with tolerance of a variety of opinions. Pluralism amounts to the recognition of the unthinkable, the absurd, and up to a limit, intolerable. Reality in itself does not need to be transparent intelligible.

  Raimon Panikkar

  Reality, Men, Self

  21 Copy quote

• There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.

  Beatrice Warde

  Wise, Simple, Men

  22 Copy quote

• I personally think money in politics on any level is horrible. I'd like to see a set amount and have every candidate spend it. Have it be completely transparent. But actually getting to that spot, as we have learned through all the legislation over the decades, is very difficult.

  Rick Santelli

  Thinking, Levels, Legislation

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 24, 2010.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The more humble and transparent a leader is, the more effective he or she will be.

  Michael Hyatt

  Humble, Leader

  "Leadership Interview - Michael Hyatt". Interview with Mike Myatt, hub.n2growth.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

  Bodhidharma

  Understanding, Mind, Vision

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.55, Macmillan

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.

  Julian Assange

  Hands, People, Needs

  "Julian Assange: the fugitive" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.

  Albert Camus

  Nature, Burning, Frigid

  7 Copy quote

• Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the intelligence community more transparent and accountable.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Nsa, Community, Ordinary

  4 Copy quote

• I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the publics trust.

  Mike Quigley

  Government, Ethical, Worthy

  4 Copy quote

• I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.

  Julian Assange

  Glasses, Understanding, Cold

  "'We Are Drowning in Material'". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. July 20, 2015.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our work must remain open and transparent so that we hear the voices of all

  Jan Eliasson

  Voice

  11 Copy quote

• Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of
  illusion.

  L. E. J. Brouwer

  Spheres, Illusion, Alas

  10 Copy quote

• I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

  David M. Kelley

  Personal Opinions, People, Way

  7 Copy quote

• I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.

  Nandan Nilekani

  Proud, Facts, Wealth

  4 Copy quote

• I'm pretty transparent and have no problem sharing my weaknesses.

  Paul Henderson

  Weakness, Problem, No Problem

  4 Copy quote

• Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

  Peter J. Daniels

  Poetry, Literature, Opaque

  10 Copy quote

• Interfaces called transparent allow us to interact/do what we're supposed to do without being aware of how the effects are obtained. We should perhaps speak instead about their opacity, given that we cannot see through them to the machine.

  Stephanie Strickland

  Poetry, Machines, Literature

  6 Copy quote

• I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.But in this water there are countless objects at different depths; and certain influences will give certain kinds of those objects an upward influence which may be intense enough and continue long enough to bring them into the upper visible layer. After the impulse ceases they commence to sink downwards.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Thinking, Lakes, Long

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

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• To be a good boss, you must be transparent. Theres a correlation between worker happiness and workplace transparency. Leaders and managers who offer transparency will earn the respect and devotion of their team.

  David Niu

  Team, Leader, Boss

  16 Copy quote

• A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Art, Powerful, One Day

  7 Copy quote

• Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and of nature. Life is the cry of cicadas signalling the end of summer, migratory birds winging south in a transparent autumn sky, fish frolicking in a stream. Life is the joy beautiful music installs in us, the thrilling sight of a mountain peak reddened by the rising sun, the myriad combinations and permutations of visible and invisible phenomena. Life is all things.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Beautiful, Summer, Spring

  13 Copy quote

• A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.

  William Butler Yeats

  Spiritual, Expression, Flames

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may be a matter for secrecy, but whatever we do with the utmost truthfulness and integrity, by virtue of its pureness, must be transparent as light.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Men, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.222, Xist Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast and obvious a nonsensicalitysentence after sentence that has no apparent meaning at all--stuff quite as bad as the worst bosh of Warren Gamaliel Harding.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Style, Stuff

  7 Copy quote