Jimmy Wales Quotes

My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

Hide nothing. It always gets found out.

I'm willing to be an open book, to a point.

People may not have the right to know about your personal, private life or any detail about any potentially embarrassing photo, but they do have the right to know whether you are honest, candid and forthcoming.

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

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

We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

There are no secrets.

I was never any good at keeping secrets.

I don't believe it helps when internal affairs are made public.

I've never had anything to hide.

We try and be as open as we can, and to protect the secrets that we must protect.

A woman who will tell her age, will tell anything.

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

There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

People with nothing to hide don't usually feel the need to say so.

Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.

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.

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.

God forbid we keep a couple secrets in this day and age!

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

I've got nothing to hide.