Quotes About Concealment

I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.

There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.

The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.

Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.

Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.

We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.

It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.

It's a simple truth that a secret is something you're ashamed of.

dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.

The ultimate horror movie for a really un-illuminated being is an enlightened person. They are scared of others seeing what they are all about and what they really do. They are scared of truth.

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.

It's easier to remember your lies if they're close to the truth.

I don't tell everything. I want the reader to have the feeling that maybe they know the whole truth, but they don't.

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.

I didn't tell him. And I never told her the whole truth. What would it matter? There was nothing she could do; nothing anyone can do or will do.

History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

Truth may have been found but might never be known.

Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

The truth which may not be told, is the truth which cannot be told.