Quotes About Disclosure

Now, it's finally time to reveal some secrets.

he commonly gave them a hint that he knew much more than he thought proper to disclose. This last circumstance alone may, indeed, very well account for his character of wisdom; since men are strangely inclined to worship what they do not understand. A grand secret, upon which several imposers on mankind have totally relied for the success of their frauds.

People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!

My readers know my views on politics and politicians because I make no secret of them in my comments for 'The New Yorker' and elsewhere.

This is the problem with the leaking. This is actually a terrible thing. Let's say I'm firing Michael Short today. The fact that you guys know about it before he does really upsets me as a human being and as a Roman Catholic.

When I was in government, I urged Congress to require that information about the actual owners of companies registered in the U.S. be disclosed to the Treasury Department, and made available on request to law enforcement.

It is irresponsible and shows a lack of integrity for anyone to disclose medical information regardless of how it was gathered. I would expect that conversations regarding my drug testing history during the course of my medical treatment would be private.

Truth, like a little dog, will always find its way out into the street.

The power of the sin is in its secrecy. Rip the covers off!

Truth is stranger than fiction because lies are much more convincing but the truth always comes out no matter how long it takes.

The truth is often of no consequence.

Complete honesty is not the same thing as full disclosure.

How can the truth make anything worse?

Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.

The other danger of the Snowden disclosures, of course, is that they reveal methods that should make any sensible person more careful about what he or she says on a cellphone or landline, or in an email.

I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.

But along with the feeling of ineffability, the conviction that some profound objective truth has been disclosed to you is a hallmark of the mystical experience, regardless of whether it has been occasioned by a drug, meditation, fasting, flagellation, or sensory deprivation.

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

Many things that I would not care to tell to any individual man I tell to the public, and for knowledge of my most secret thoughts I refer my most loyal friends to a bookseller's stall.

In a Trial by Forfeiture, the normal rules of evidence do not apply. There are no disclosure requirements that evidence be revealed to the opposition or to the magistrates prior to the court proceedings. This places the person with secret knowledge in a uniquely powerful position—commensurate with the extreme risk he takes.

A firm's income statement may be likened to a bikini—what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.

But I think you have a right to know what it is you're not being told.

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.]

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.