Kept Secrets Quotes

• One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their own drugs.

  Christopher McDougall

  Epidemics, Best Kept Secrets, Drug

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• Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Evil, Secret, Needs

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• There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Keeping Secrets, Best Kept Secrets, Criminal Mind

  1898 Sir George Crofts. Mrs Warren's Profession, act 3.

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• 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.

  E. W. Howe

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "Country Town Sayings: A Collection of Paragraphs from the Atchison Globe". Book by Edgar Watson Howe, p. 9, 1911.

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• A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

  Lauren Oliver

  Good Friend, Keeping Secrets, Best Kept Secrets

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.47, HarperCollins

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• If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Wind, Keeping Secrets

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Hilarious, 4th Of July

  Poor Richard's Almanac for 1735 and 1741.

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• I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Best Kept Secrets, Secret

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• Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Keeping Secrets, Wish, Facts

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• A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Keeping Secrets, People, Shadow Of The Wind

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.21, Penguin

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• If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Keeping Secrets, Enemy

  "The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac".

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• If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

  George Orwell

  Keeping Secrets, Nineteen, Want

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 4 (1949)

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• To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Keeping Secrets, Secrecy

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• Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Keeping Secrets, Giving, Secret

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

  Sigmund Freud

  Betrayal, Eye, Keeping Secrets

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

  Bertrand Russell

  Respect, Keeping Secrets, People

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.50, Routledge

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• Nigeria is one of the best-kept secrets.

  Aliko Dangote

  Best Kept Secrets, Secret, Nigeria

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• One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

  John Naisbitt

  Commitment, Best Kept Secrets, America

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• Time is the best kept secret of the rich.

  Jim Rohn

  Best Kept Secrets, Secret, Rich

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 25, 2017

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• You can easily tell when someone has been hit by a spear. he turns a deep shade of bitter. David never got hit. Gradually, he learned a very well-kept secret...
  One, never learn anything about the fashionable, easily mastered art of spear throwing. Two, stay out of the company of all spear throwers. And three, keep your mouth tightly closed.
  In this way, spears will never touch you, even when they pierce your heart.

  Gene Edwards

  Art, Two, Secret

  "A Tale of Three Kings". Book by Gene Edwards, 1980.

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  Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

  Liam Neeson

  Character, Best Kept Secrets, People

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• Those without the gate frequently question the wisdom and right of the occultist to guard his knowledge by the imposition of oaths of secrecy. We are so accustomed to see the scientist give his beneficent discoveries freely to all mankind that we feel that humanity is wronged and defrauded if any knowledge be kept secret by its discoverers and not at once made available for all who desire to share in it.
  The knowledge is reserved in order that humanity may be protected from its abuse at the hands of the unscrupulous.

  Dion Fortune

  Discovery, Hands, Order

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• I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Secret, Should, Agree

  "Julian Assange & Daniel Ellsberg on Wikileaks". "Larry King Live", www.realclearpolitics.com. July 26, 2010.

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• The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.

  John W. Gardner

  Life, Believe, Hard Work

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• Your giving is sacred and therefore should be kept secret. It is wise to give quietly with no strings attached.

  Catherine Ponder

  Wise, Strings Attached, Giving

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