Quotes on Concealment

If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of concealment. And the world is not something that gives itself away. The heavens still keep their secrets. There is little gossip amongst the stars. But no one has forgotten the Big Bang yet. Since then, silence has reigned supreme, and every thing there is moving away. One can still come across a moon. Or a comet. Just don't expect friendly greetings. No visiting cards are printed in space.

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

A fault is fostered by concealment.

I always showed myself in the face of day, asserting the liberty and independence of my country, while some others, like owls, courted concealment and were too much afraid of losing their roosts to leave them for such a cause.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.