Concealed Quotes - Page 14

• Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed from us because it is too bad to be told.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Two, People, Childhood

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Cunning, Prudence

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.250

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• Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. 'Please say you still love me,' the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare badly, they return to their palaces and sleep fitfully.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Kings, Queens, Fear

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• Only for you, children of doctrine and learning, have we written this work. Examine this book, ponder the meaning we have dispersed in various places and gathered again; what we have concealed in one place we have disclosed in another, that it may be understood by your wisdom.

  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

  Children, Book, Doctrine

  Dedication in "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco, 1988.

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• Natural Magick therefore is that, which considering well the strength and force of Natural and Celestial beings, and with great curiosity labouring to discover their affections, produces into open Act the hidden and concealed powers of Nature.

  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

  Curiosity, Magic, Affection

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• In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either of profit or gratification, rather than run the risk of its display. This latter evil is never felt under a good government.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Running, Government, Evil

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.389

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• Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.

  John Milton

  Dark, Night, Light

  John Milton (1837). “Paradis perdu: de Milton”, p.338

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• Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.

  Irving Howe

  Civilization, Bears, Farce

  Irving Howe (1995). “A Critic's Notebook”, Harvest Books

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• All this, the positive and physical essence of mechanics, which makes its chief and highest interest for a student of nature, is in existing treatises completely buried and concealed beneath a mass of technical considerations.

  Ernst Mach

  Essence, Students, Consideration

  Ernst Mach (2013). “The Science of Mechanics”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.

  Arthur Helps

  Character, Errors, Feelings

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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• Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast
  And by a lantern bright I fled my house while all in quiet rest.
  Shrouded by the night and by the secret stair I quickly fled.
  The veil concealed my eyes while all within lay quiet as the dead.

  John of the Cross

  Eye, Night, Flames

  "The Dark Night Of The Soul" by John of the Cross, Variant adapted for music by Loreena McKennitt, 1994.

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• For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Evil, Uniting

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• Very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the firs phalange, the mesophalange and the metaphalange, there is a tiny brain... It should be noted that fingers are without brains, these develop gradually with the passage of time and with the help of what the eyes see... That is why the fingers have always excelled at uncovering what is concealed.

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, People, Brain

  "The Cave". Book by Jose Saramago, 2002.

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• The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

  John Rawls

  Views, Vagueness, Ends

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.485, Harvard University Press

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• Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed.

  Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling

  Lying, May, Truth Is

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• The purpose of formulating [a] conflict as a game is not that of resolving the conflict by 'solving the game.' It is that of displaying the structure of the conflict and thereby exposing features of it that may be concealed by rhetoric. In particular, appreciation of the peculiar structure of some of the so-called mixed - motive conflicts represented nonzero-sum games may change the conflicting parties' perception of their situation.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Appreciation, Party, Games

  "Advances in Reversal Theory" by M.J. Apter, ‎J.H. Kerr, ‎S. Murgatroyd, (p. 63-64), 1993.

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• I have never concealed the fact and said it before the court in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past and tradition... I ask only that you look at my life historically and take it as history. I believe that from 1933 I truly represented the Lutheran-Christian outlook on the Jewish question - as I revealed before the court - but that I returned home after eight years' imprisonment as a completely different person.

  Martin Niemoller

  Christian, Believe, Home

  "Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984" by James Bentley, (p. 334), 1984.

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• A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Wife, Yoke

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.92, The Floating Press

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• As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which were always there but which wealth and favour had concealed.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Favors, Riches

  "Of Worldly Goods". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Fear, Hate, Philosophical

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• Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

  John Dryden

  Fate, Joy, Sorrow

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• No one respects a talent that is concealed.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Inspirational, Genius, Talent

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• Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

  Theodor Adorno

  Principles, Fascism, Domination

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.108, Verso

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• I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed weapon in the small of your back that when you, someone crosses you, pisses you off, road rage, I think just the slight badge and the little moving away of the jacket and not losing eye contact does amazing things.

  Sandra Bullock

  Moving, Eye, Thinking

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• You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Vegetarianism, Ethics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.4, Harvard University Press

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