Quotes About Concealment

But we rarely see what we prefer to overlook.

The player is always trapped in his own play but he must never allow the spectators to suspect this, they must always think that he is free. Thus the great art of the player is not in showing but in concealing.

What I hide by my language, my body utters

Charity had discovered there were things you didn't want to tell. Shame wasn't the reason. Sometimes it was just better-kinder- to keep up a front

Or maybe it wasn't a man at all.

concealed from view a face so face-like in its appearance as to be positively facial.

People like him, who buried their past so determinedly, should not help it from the grave so easily.

Ignorance is like a black hole that sucks everything into it, even illumination. Thus we can't see it, at least not directly.

for divorce. You don't kill to prevent things you don't know about. His

Encapsulation says that, not only are you allowed to take a simpler view of a complex concept, you are not allowed to look at any of the details of the complex concept. What you see is what you get—it's all you get!

If the consequences of pretending to know can be so damaging, why do people keep doing it? That's easy: in most cases, the cost of saying "I don't know" is higher than the cost of being wrong—at least for the individual.

We are blind to our blindness.

That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological understanding, the more we conceal them.

All no means is they don't know for sure or there's a secret being kept, like someone's trying to hide something really good.

To get around these things, Maus lived at the back of a closet. The door was

I thought of myself, in those days, as someone in disguise—beneath the obedient son, beneath the straight-A student, the agreeable well-brought-up boy with his friends and his ping-pong and his semiofficial girlfriend, there was another being, restless, elusive, mocking, disruptive, imperious, and this shadowy underself had nothing to do with that other one who laughed with his friends and went to school dances and spent summer afternoons at the beach.

I love uniforms because they allow you to hide. No one knows what you are thinking, so it's a very appropriate and correct way to be yourself.

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid

Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love.

Without my Vulcan cat suit, Frankenstein wig and pointed ears, I don't get recognized. I love the fact I'm a shape shifter who can go unnoticed.

Why, you love him! Your fear, your terror, all of that is just love and love of the most exquisite kind, the kind which people do not admit even to themselves.

Brains are an asset to the woman in love who's smart enough to hide 'em.

If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.