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

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Above And Beyond Assurance Certainty Concealment Confidence Foolishness Humility Intelligence Philosophy Pretentiousness Profound Self Assurance Theory Within

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

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Aggravation Concealment Confusion Contemplation Dishonesty Hardcore Honesty Lie Lying Never Pain Provoke Secrecy Secrets Thinkers Thought Torture Truth

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.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Concealment Confession Dishonesty Exposing Honesty Humility Hypocrisy Openness Pride Righteousness Self Righteousness Sin Truth Vulnerability

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

~ Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray Concealment Knowledge Science Secrets Wisdom

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.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Action Actions Aphorism Aphorisms Bad Bad People Bad Person Badness Character Characters Conceal Concealment Facade Facades Good Good People Good Person Goodness Humor Humour Illusion Illusions Impress Impression Impressions Mask Masks Personalities Personality Quotation Quotations Quote Quotes Satire

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.

~ Jane Austen

Jane Austen Attachment Clichés Concealment Empowerment Feminism Ignorance Intelligence Irony Knowledge Preconceptions Prejudice Sarcasm Stereotypes Vanity Women

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Animals Aphorism Aphorisms Conceal Concealment Creatures Culture Illusion Illusions Impression Mother Nature Nature Pretend Pretense Symbolism Symbols Veil

The pain you hide leaves the deepest scars.

~ Marty Rubin

Marty Rubin Concealment Denial Pain

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

~ Idries Shah

Idries Shah Concealment Egocerity Greed Mind Psychology Sincerity Sufi Sufis Sufism

Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Concealment Speech Thoughts

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

~ William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Concealment Dark Plans Darkness Stealth

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.

~ Jane Austen

Jane Austen Concealment Cry Feelings Laugh Pride And Prejudice

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.

~ Susan Griffin

Susan Griffin Concealment Denial Revelation Secrets Truth

Of what is concealed can also be revealed.

~ Pushpa Rana

Pushpa Rana Conceal Concealment Reveal Revealed Secrets

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

~ Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin Concealment Corruption Shame