concealed truth Quotes

Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.

I am not what you see and hear.

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

I felt that just looking at the world in general, there are so many types of people, and some hide who they truly are. And I feel that every person has some kind of warped identity inside them that they decide if they want to show or not.

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place. You can hide Truth under a doormat, but eventually the mat will rise very high with Time -- forcing it to reveal all the truths it conceals.

My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.

All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.

Nothing weighs more than a secret.

Your name?"The movements of the man's mouth didn't quite match what he was saying, so seeing him speak was a bit like watching a badly dubbed film. "Alex Gardiner," Alex said. "Your real name?" "I just told you." "You lied. Your real name is Alex Rider." "Why ask if you think you know?

Mystery hovers over all things here below.

Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.

But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned

One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?

The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable.

Disguise is central to God's way of dealing with us human beings. Not because God is playing games with us but because the God who is beyond our knowing makes himself known in the disguise of what we can know. The Christian word for this is revelation, and the ultimate revelation came by incarnation. ... God is the master of disguises, in order that we might see.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

Read between the lines, folks, 'cause I'm here to tell you you're not getting the straight story. Ever. You're getting variations of the truth, if you're lucky.

... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.

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

Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony to the fact that much which he meant to convey has never been guessed at in any review of his work; and many a delicate beauty of thought, on which he principally valued himself, remains, like the statue of Isis, an image of truth from which no hand lifts the veil.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.