Andy Rooney Quotes

More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

Everyone knows everything eventually.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.

By honest I don't mean that you only tell what's true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all the information that is required for somebody else who is intelligent to make up their mind.

I personally believe in progress. I think one of the most debilitating and harming things you can do to a child is to keep them in the dark.

What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.

I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.

The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.

I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.

I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

In order for me to get through all the red tape and just allow people to just get at my talent, I've got to set the record straight. And you can't set half the record straight; when you tell it, you've got to tell it all.

We are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.