Disclosure Quotes

• Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

  Jane Austen

  Relationship, Inspiring, Honesty

  Jane Austen (1816). “Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.249

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• Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophical, Demand, Reason

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

  Billy Graham

  Integrity, Practice, World

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• Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Government, Expectations, Age

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• One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Friendship, Gratitude, Real

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• The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.

  Alice Miller

  Judging, Abuse, Process

  Alice Miller (1991). “Breaking down the wall of silence: the liberating experience of facing painful truth”, Penguin Press HC, The

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• Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Discovery

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• Nothing is hidden that will not be made known; nothing is secret that will not come to light.

  Dan Brown

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Truth

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.1067, Random House

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• Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love.

  Sidney Jourard

  Self, Important, Reason

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• The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.

  Charles Nicolle

  Ignorance, Yesterday, Imagination

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• Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

  Bob Woodward

  Law, Presidential, Criminals

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• Keep in mind, just because you don’t know the answer doesn’t mean that one does not exist. You simply haven’t discovered it yet.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Mean, Mind

  Joel Osteen (2012). “Daily Readings from Your Best Life Now”, p.160, Hachette UK

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• That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth, and that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.

  Julian Assange

  Mean, Organization, Enormous Quantities

  "Why the world needs WikiLeaks". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Science, Would Be, Enquiry

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• What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

  Wallace Stevens

  Eye, Reality, Meditation

  Wallace Stevens, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (1989). “Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects: Wallace Stevens' Commonplace Book”, p.12, Stanford University Press

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• I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations.

  Hillary Clinton

  Regret, Assessment, United States

  Presser on Wikileaks Release of Confidential Documents, delivered 29 November 2010, Treaty Room, Washington, D.C.

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• The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, People, Effort

  Presser on Wikileaks Release of Confidential Documents, delivered 29 November 2010, Treaty Room, Washington, D.C.

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• The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it's only going to get worse. [The NSA will] say that because of the crisis, the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny.

  Edward Snowden

  Fighting, Years, Nsa

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• Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn't feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Secret, Machines

  "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2013.

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• I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

  Daniel Schorr

  Government, Doubt, Care

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• Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

  Graydon Carter

  Three, Stories, Elements

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• No, I only think you cruel, as I said the other day. Maybe not intentionally cruel; but you seem to be forcing me into disclosures which can result in nothing; as if you would have me bare a wound for the pleasure of looking at it, without the intention or power of healing it.

  Kate Chopin

  Healing, Thinking, Pleasure

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.277

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• The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.

  Barack Obama

  Errors, Government, Doubt

  "'Most Transparent Administration Ever' Is Still Not" by Erika Eichelberger, www.motherjones.com. February 7, 2013.

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• A great number of those working for liberal causes are not only shy but borderline collusive. They want change to happen nicely, and it won't. They want decency to come about without anybody suffering or being embarrassed, and it won't. And most of all they want to give many of the enemies of open government the benefit of the doubt, and I don't. It's not just a difference of approach, it's a complete schism in our respective philosophy. You can't go about disclosure in the hope that it won't spoil anybody's dinner.

  Julian Assange

  Philosophy, Government, Differences

  Julian Assange (2011). “Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography”, p.135, Canongate Books

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• Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Computer, Clicks, Agree

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