Concealment Quotes

The pain you hide leaves the deepest scars.

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Lately I have come to believe that an as yet undiscovered human need and even a property of matter is the desire for revelation. The truth within us has a way of coming out despite all conscious efforts to conceal it. I have heard stories from those in the generation after the war, all speaking of the same struggle to ferret truth from the silence of their parents so that they themselves could begin to live.

Of what is concealed can also be revealed.

This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.