Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.
William ShakespeareTags: darkness concealment dark-plans stealth
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 AustenTags: intelligence empowerment knowledge women feminism prejudice ignorance vanity sarcasm irony stereotypes attachment clichés preconceptions concealment
This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.
Ian RankinTags: shame corruption concealment
Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy — that is a hermit's judgment: "There is something arbitrary in his stopping here to look back and look around, in his not digging deeper here but laying his spade aside; there is also something suspicious about it." Every philosophy also conceals a philosophy; every opinion is also a hideout, every word also a mask.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: philosophy concealment
To live with tremendous and proud composure; always beyond —. To have and not to have one's affects, one's pro and con, at will; to condescend to them, for a few hours; to seat oneself on them as on a horse, often as on an ass — for one must know how to make use of their stupidity as much as of their fire. To reserve one's three hundred foregrounds; also the dark glasses; for there are cases when nobody may look into our eyes, still less into our "grounds." And to choose for company that impish and cheerful vice, courtesy. And to remain master of one's four virtues: of courage, insight, sympathy, and solitude.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: self-control concealment composure wishful-thinking
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 AustenTags: feelings laugh pride-and-prejudice cry concealment
Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.
Criss JamiTags: truth honesty pain thought lie lying secrets secrecy thinkers torture dishonesty confusion aggravation contemplation never concealment provoke hardcore
Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
VoltaireTags: speech thoughts concealment
I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.
Criss JamiTags: intelligence certainty philosophy confidence humility profound self-assurance theory foolishness within assurance concealment pretentiousness above-and-beyond
Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.
Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.
Tags: wisdom science knowledge secrets concealment
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