Transparent Quotes

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

  Theophile Gautier

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Eye

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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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• Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Being Yourself, Honesty, Vulnerable

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• The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their luminosity.

  Peter Wilson

  Angel, Penetrate

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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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• She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created.

  Peter Høeg

  Sound, Tone, Watercolors

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• I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.

  Miguel

  Thinking, Want, Too Much

  Source: news.spotify.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• My soul Is Naked.
  It wears The Transparent Garment Of Love.

  Rumi

  Soul, Naked, Garments

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• Water becomes clear and transparent when in a quiescent stage. How much the more wonderful will be the mind of a sage when poised in quiescence! It is the mirror of heaven and earth, reflecting the ten thousand things.

  Zhuangzi

  Mirrors, Water, Heaven

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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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• Good web text has a lot in common with good print text. It's plain, concise, concrete and 'transparent': even on a personal site the text shouldn't draw attention to itself, only to its subject.

  Crawford Kilian

  Attention, Common, Site

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• Being transparent about our plans enables us to get better feedback.

  Shantanu Narayen

  Get Better, Feedback, Plans

  "Shantanu Narayen on Adobe’s Future Direction: Product Strategy for the Next Generation of the Web". Knowledge@Wharton Interview, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. May 16, 2007.

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• Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.

  Mark Kingwell

  Desire

  Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.42, Rowman & Littlefield

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• ...letting go of attachment to any way of believing or thinking has made me feel more expanded and almost transparent so that universal energy can just flow through me.

  Anita Moorjani

  Letting Go, Believe, Thinking

  Anita Moorjani (2012). “Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing”, p.160, Hay House, Inc

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• Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document and act as a work of art as well.

  Clement Greenberg

  Photography, Art, Men

  Clement Greenberg, John O'Brian (1988). “The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949”, p.60, University of Chicago Press

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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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• 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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