Concealing Quotes

• Don't join the book burners!

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Book, Library, Censorship

  Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953

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• Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

  Abraham Maslow

  Communication, Way, Language

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• Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Book, Reading, Library

  Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953

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• Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Confidence, Philosophy, Communication

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.282, Modern Library

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• He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kindness, Ungrateful, Return

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 393-94, De Beneficiis, III. 1, 1922.

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• If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; the second effect, however, might be excellent, for a world without any friends would be felt to be intolerable, and we should learn to like each other without needing a veil of illusion to conceal from ourselves that we did not think each other absolutely perfect.

  Bertrand Russell

  Friendship, Thinking, Perfect

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.65, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.

  John Napier

  Men, Empathy, Purpose

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• A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Unity, Might, Harmony

  Lawrence Kushner (2010). “I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego”, p.150, Jewish Lights Publishing

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• I hurt easy, I just don't show it. You can hurt someone and not even know it.

  Bob Dylan

  Hurt, Easy, Shows

  Song: Things Have Changed, Album: The Essential Bob Dylan, 2000

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• Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination   Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspiration, Imagination, Fuel

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• The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Way, Boundaries

  Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text

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• Art lies in concealing art.

  Ovid

  Art, Lying

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• A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

  Dorothy Nevill

  Politician, Modern, Explaining

  Lady Dorothy Nevill (1912). “My own times”

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• Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

  Frank Herbert

  Art, Candid, Appearing

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.142, Penguin

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• The First Amendment is really at the very core of political speech, and political speech is at the core of the First Amendment. So, we want to be very careful to make sure that candidates for office are free to express their views so that people will make an informed choice. We don't want them holding back, and sort of concealing their views and then disclosing them afterwards.

  Alex Kozinski

  Views, People, Office

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good...

  Julian Assange

  Organization, Effort, Important

  "Why the world needs WikiLeaks". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.

  Maya Banks

  Song, Two, Space

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• He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that tried to gain admission. But if he dreaded exposure of his tenderness, he was equally desirous that all men should recognize his justice; and he felt that he had been unjust, in giving so scornful a hearing to anyone who had waited, with humble patience, for five hours, to speak to him.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Jealous, Heart, Humble

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1203, Delphi Classics

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• In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it dims her memory. She makes love wildly, lasciviously, and at the same time the curtain of oblivion wraps her lewdness in an all-concealing darkness. As if a poet were writing his greatest poem with ink that instantly disappears.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Writing, Play

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• I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.

  Kerry Greenwood

  Doe

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• So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade. What other surprises was she concealing?

  Tessa Dare

  Girl, Opposites, Interesting

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• Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home.

  Philip K. Dick

  Home, Wish, Doe

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• Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

  E. M. Forster

  Vulgarity Is, Revealing Something, Literature

  'The Longest Journey' (1907) ch. 26

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• Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.

  Karen Duffy

  Beach, Water, Balls

  "Model lives with chronic disease". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.

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• Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Thinking, Littles

  Notebook, 1899

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