Divulge Quotes

• A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he has performed; domestic conflicts; private affairs with his wife; poorly prepared food he may have been offered; or slang he may have heard.

  Chanakya

  Wise, Men, Medicine

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• The best way to divulge a secret is to tell someone not to say anything about it.

  Charles Fleischer

  Secret, Say Anything, Way

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• Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.

  Arthur Nielsen

  Perspective, Information, Clients

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• So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

  Johannes Kepler

  Life, Mother, Ignorance

  "Somnium". Book by Johannes Kepler, 1620-1630.

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• Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Two, Evil, Choices

  "Torture? No. Except …" by Charles Krauthammer, jewishworldreview.com. May 1, 2009.

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• I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.

  John O. Brennan

  Sensitive, Method, Lost

  "The Efficacy and Ethics of U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy". Remarks by John O. Brennan at the Wilson Center, www.wilsoncenter.org. April 30, 2012.

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• If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Encouragement, Women, Party

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• Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.

  Ransom Riggs

  Wonder, Now And Then, Better Now

  Ransom Riggs (2014). “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children”, p.348, Quirk Books

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• It's when most of the guests have gone that the party really gets interesting - peering under the table and into the bath to see who's stayed and what shape they're in. It is then that those who are still conscious divulge things you had not known before: sometimes about themselves, sometimes about other people and sometimes about you. It does not necessarily make pleasant hearing but it is always fascinating. In the relaxed atmosphere, in the wake of the hubbub, they unwind and grow confidential - nay, indiscreet. If they are not already, they end up as your closest friends.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Party, Interesting, People

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• No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Acquisition, Way

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.351, Delphi Classics

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• The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

  Alexander Pope

  Sick, Secret, Letters

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• In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.

  Paul Auster

  Events, Purpose, Facts

  Paul Auster (1988). “The locked room”, Penguin Group USA

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• Taylor Swift is very strategic with her friends and enemies. And I know lots of secrets. I can't divulge, but I know a lot of stuff about her. And I'm scared. I'm scared for my life.

  Diplo

  Secret, Enemy, Stuff

  "Diplo Says He Knows Taylor Swift’s ‘Secrets’ And He’s ‘Scared For His Life’" By Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2015.

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• Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up, this is utopia.

  Alanis Morissette

  Philosophy, Forgiving, Speak

  Song: Utopia, Album: Under Rug Swept, 2002

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• It is inconceivable that anyone will divulge a truly effective get-rich scheme for the price of a book. There is ample opportunity to use wealth in this world, and neither I nor my friends, nor anyone else I have ever met, has so much of it that they are interested in putting themselves at a disadvantage by sharing their secrets.

  Victor Niederhoffer

  Book, Opportunity, Secret

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• Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.

  Hippocrates

  Men, Sick, House

  The Physician's Oath (translation by W. H. S. Jones)

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• Real person. real name. I won't divulge too much, but it's not a fake name. And it's not a fake person. I guess that's the best answer I can say: It's not a fake name and it's not a fake person. But it's not her real name and it's not a real person either.

  Justin Vernon

  Real, Names, Fake

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.

  Jonathan Ames

  Want, Written

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• Casting Captain America is really casting two roles... Steve Rogers before and after the transformation from 98 pound weakling to perfect physical specimen. I can't divulge how we're going to do it, but the performance will be Chris Evans from beginning to end.

  Joe Johnston

  Two, America, Perfect

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• The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Writing, Men, Misery

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• There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. So maybe it was better to leave a few spots on the map blank. To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it to divulge every last secret. Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.

  Ransom Riggs

  Life, Book, Romance

  "Hollow City". Book by Ransom Riggs, January 14, 2014.

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• The only thing I don't divulge is the truth about Mother killing little Carolina. I don't know why. Perhaps I sense he's not ready to know that just yet. Maybe he never will. People can live with only so much honesty. And sometimes, people can suprise you. I talk to my brother as I never have before, trusting in him, letting the river listen to my confessions on its path toward the sea. ~pg 693

  Libba Bray

  Mother, Brother, Honesty

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.454, Simon and Schuster

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• I am unable, mentally incapable, of relating the dead thing, the broken body refusing to divulge why or where the occupant has gone, to the thing that was alive.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Grief, Broken, Gone

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• In almost every thriller, a point is reached when someone, usually calling from a phone booth, telephones with a vital piece of information, which he cannot divulge by phone. By the time the hero arrives at the place where they had arranged to meet, the caller is dead, or too near death to tell. There is never an explanation for the reluctance of the caller to impart his message in the first place.

  Renata Adler

  Hero, Phones, Calling

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.100, New York Review of Books

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• I tell people this over and over again: don't attach your faith to people. People will come and go. People will disappoint you. People will divulge dark secrets. People will turn out to be the opposite of what you thought. Allah is perfect. His Messenger (peace be upon him) is a perfect example, and the religion is a perfect methodology. Attach yourself to the principles instead of the people. That way no Shaykh going wild or role model going rogue will be able to shake your faith.

  Omar Suleiman

  Dark, Opposites, People

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Sep 10, 2015

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