Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes

Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.

I was never any good at keeping secrets.

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

I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.

We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it.

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.

I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

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

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

I don't want to be mysterious.

We don't need secrecy.

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

I think secrets are something that you keep or are afraid to share because you think they're going to harm you in some way. So if you don't have any secrets, then there's no way anyone can harm you.

Sometimes I think I've been too honest, and other times, too explicit.

Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.

In order to be transparent, you really have to be completely honest and open, so that's how I've lived my life, and that's where I am now. I am completely transparent. There's nothing that you can't ask me and nothing I won't talk about.