Concealed Knowledge Quotes

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

Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed.

Behind one truth there is always yet another.

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

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

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

What you don't know will hurt you.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

that's because it's from the night, and the night keeps secrets

Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.

I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery.

The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.

If only Uncle Monty knew what we know," Violet said, "and Stephano knew that he knew what we know. But Uncle Monty doesn't know what we know, and Stephano knows that he doesn't know what we know." "I know," Klause said. "I know you know," Violet said

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

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone?

My secret? See it, and stay focused on it.

There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.

There are the things that are out in the open, and there are the things that are hidden. The real world has more to do with what is hidden.

At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.

The truth that I am seeking is in your missing file.

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

When the world is pregnant with lies, a secret long hidden will be revealed.

there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive - for no one knows what wisdom lies concealed in silence!