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Quotes About Concealment

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.
~ Anne Perry, Tathea
One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.
~ Christian Friedrich Hebbel
There are three things that cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.
~ Gautama Buddha
Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
~ Democritus
All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
~ Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
~ Joss Whedon
You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.
~ Cassandra Clare
Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.
~ Italo Calvino
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
~ Anais Nin
The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.
~ Arianna Huffington
Victory cannot tolerate truth.
~ Nachman of Breslov
The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.
~ Alan Dershowitz
The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
~ Andre Malraux
Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.
~ Marisha Pessl, Night Film
Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.
~ Anthony D. Williams
At some point all lies are brought to the surface and truth comes forth no matter how hard we try to hide it.
~ Gabrielle Bernstein
Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.
~ Mason Cooley
Mystery is truth's dancing partner.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
jokes are used to hide the truth!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Darkness has the ability to cover up; light has the ability to uncover! Darkness is the enemy of truth; light is the friend of truth!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
~ Rachel Cusk
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, Killosophy