Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes

Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed.

The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.

Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.

Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind; Veil upon veil will lift but there must be Veil upon veil behind.

Maybe I'd just figured out there were some things you were better off not knowing

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances

There are faint stars in the night sky that you can see, but only if you look to the side of where they shine. They burn too weakly or are too far away to be seen directly, even if you stare. But you can see them out of the corner of your eye because the cells on the periphery of your retina are more sensitive to light. Maybe truth is just like that. You can see it, but only out of the corner of your eye.

Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now!" Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to squeeze. "I didn't mean..." "No one ever does." Petra said, shoving the baton back at Shanti.

Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.

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

Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise; And with a woman's smile and a child's care Examines something she is holding there Concealed by her own shoulder from our eyes.

The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.

The audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see.

Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.