Quotes About Concealment

Chameleons usually don't draw much of a crowd or get many ovations. By

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.

More secrets are improperly disclosed from boredom than from any other motive;

Words don't tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to convince people or to make them admire us. It's all disguise. It's all hidden -- a secret language.

The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.

The thing that matters is not what they show me but what they hide from me and, above all, what they do not suspect is in them.

N]ot my name, my secret idea of myself.

Remember: Stirrers thrive by hiding in the group, disguising their actions among the reactions of others. Render their actions visible and they lose their power to upset.

Maintenez votre entourage dans l'incertitude et le flou en ne révélant jamais le but qui se cache derrière vos actions. S'ils n'ont aucune idée de ce que vous prévoyez, ils ne pourront pas préparer de défense. Guidez-les assez loin dans une autre direction, enveloppez-les d'un écran de fumée et quand ils perceront à jour vos desseins, il sera trop tard.

The word personality comes from the Latin persona, which means "mask." In the public we all wear masks, and this has a positive function.

People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society

When you reveal the inner workings of your creation, you become just one mere mortal among others. What is understandable is not awe inspiring

Blending in is the perfect smoke screen for spying. The better you do it, the better you can conceal your intentions.

You will think in terms of opposites—when people overtly display some trait, such as confidence or hypermasculinity, they are most often concealing the contrary reality.

If you yearn for power, quickly lay honesty aside, and train yourself in the art of concealing your intentions.

Sus repliegues las vuelven misteriosas, y las engrandecemos en nuestra imaginación.

Look at the part of a person that is most visible—their greed, their lust, their intense fear. These are the emotions they cannot conceal, and over which they have the least control. And what people cannot control, you can control for them.

An emphatic trait often conceals it's opposite

We have learned to limit our emotions to such an extent that we won't let others in and we can't get out. We invest an inordinate amount of time and energy maintaining a façade, an image to hide behind.

An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.

Why didn't you guess this would happen? Elayne demanded. He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch. Light, Elayne said. You knew. You spent this whole week planning with us, and you knew the entire time you'd throw it out with the dishwater.

a open pot can't hide, a inch-opened door can't hide much, but an open man is hiding the universe. she says something else, but i cannot remember the rest.