Concealment Quotes

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.

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.

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

Of what is concealed can also be revealed.

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

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.

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