Quotes About Concealment

Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory;  show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat.

The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points;

In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them

The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points; and his forces being thus distributed in many directions, the numbers we shall have to face at any given point will be proportionately few.

Si vos ennemis sont plus puissants et plus forts que vous, vous ne les attaquerez point, vous éviterez avec un grand soin ce qui peut conduire à un engagement général ; vous cacherez toujours avec une extrême attention l'état où vous vous trouverez.

A skillful defenders hides within ninefold earth; a skillful attacker moves above ninefold sky

If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own then I can concentrate and he must divide.

The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known

Bad times made for big secrets.

The family put on an "everything is fine" face to the outside world. They were united by their need to deal with their common enemy. The secret became the glue that kept the tortured family intact.

Relabeling—a form of denial—takes a problem and hides it behind euphemisms.

the past still held secrets, the past threw its shadows...

You try so hard to shield me, and protect me, and really, there is no need, you try so hard to hide what you want, how you feel, and of course you can't.

How many selves do we contain, like Russian dolls concealed within one another.

The moment had gone. I carried my secrets still with me, and they were hard, heavy, bitter things.

It's not a good idea to let on about extreme happy feelings. People get ideas.

To say a feeling, an impression is to diminish it - expel it

Like other diseases that arouse feelings of shame, AIDS is often a secret, but not from the patient. A cancer diagnosis was frequently concealed from patients by their families; an AIDS diagnosis is at least as often concealed from their families by patients.

Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.

There is only so much revealing one can do. For every self-revelation, there has to be a self-concealment. A life-long commitment to writing involves a balancing of these incompatible needs.

The only place Aletta and I could be together unseen was just under the rafters in the church tower, a circumstance that propelled us into an earlier intimacy than what we would have known had we been permitted to walk together Sunday afternoons under the wide sky.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. —Buddha

walking again. But being inconspicuous on

To a magician there is very little difference between a mirror and a door.