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O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.
— Bertrand Russell
The men wore loose loincloths that did little to conceal penes like pendulums on grandfather clocks. There
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
the implied Shakespeare is thoroughly engaged with life, and he does not conceal his judgment on the selfish, the foolish, and the cruel.
— Wayne C. Booth
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
It is our birthright to uncover the soul - to remove the layers of fear or shame or apathy or cynicism that conceal it.
— Elizabeth Lesser
And must I not conceal myself like one who has swallowed gold- lest my soul should be ripped up?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.
— Franz Grillparzer
It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it.
— Tommy Tenney
We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
— Jesse Jackson
Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves ... and other animals.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Shadow conceals - light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.
— Josef Von Sternberg
L'on a beau se cacher a' soi-me me, l'on aime toujours. We vainly conceal from ourselves the fact that we are always in love.
— Blaise Pascal
To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
— Lucretius
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Perfection doesn't exist," I reply. "It's a mask people wear to conceal their ugly truths. Never trust someone who only ever smiles at you.
— J.M. Darhower
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
— Anthony Trollope
We all have handicaps. The difference is that some of us must reveal ours, while others must conceal theirs, to be treated with mercy.
— Yahia Lababidi
Losing her parents had created a crack in her heart that was becoming harder to conceal by the day.
— Tabitha Caplinger
Politics is what a man does in order to conceal what he is and what he himself does not know.
— Karl Kraus
The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.
— Louis Stokes
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
— Cyril Connolly
If you light a fire, you cannot conceal the smoke.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Words can lie. Words can deceive and delude and conceal and avoid. But the things you do, how you move, how you touch, those things cannot lie.
— Jasinda Wilder
Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
— W. Somerset Maugham
How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?
— Idries Shah
The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There are some occasions when a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest.
— Lord Chesterfield
Like the creatures living incognito amongst the human race, so will Michael attempt to conceal from others his strange powers and abilities.
— Shannon Rieger
If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention
— Henry David Thoreau
Favorable outcomes conceal our weaknesses.Overcoming unfavorable outcomes reveals our strengths. — Matshona Dhliwayo
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Divination is one of the most imprecise branches of magic. I shall not conceal from you that I have very little patience with it.
— J.K. Rowling
Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.
— Michael Bassey
Masks reveal. They don't conceal. Masks reveal your cravings, your passion, your deepest most secret desires.
— Chloe Thurlow
It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten.
— Lord Chesterfield
Laughter may instruct but it may also conceal, defending the joker against anger and retaliation: a game is only a game.
— Margaret Atwood
You have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be anxious to conceal them?
— Emily Bronte
Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
— Bertrand Russell
However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
— Irving R. Levine
It is better to conceal ignorance.
— Heraclitus
Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.
— Clement Greenberg
I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.
— William, Saroyan
Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.
— Dana Gioia
The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.
— Margaret Sanger
When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.
— David Bronstein
He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.
— Benjamin Franklin
Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.
— Stanley Schmidt
My painting is visible images that conceal nothing ... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.
— Rene Magritte
The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.
— Carl Jung
509. A word uncovers the truth; it can also be used to conceal it.
— Alija Izetbegovic
Juliette trusted the darkness to conceal her smile.
— Hugh Howey
The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
— Edward Young
Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.
— Mason Cooley
Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts
— Jose Saramago
In those first moments it was easier to conceal a confusion of feeling behind a motherly tone
— Ian McEwan
Writer? A complimentary term to conceal one's insanities.
— Coco J. Ginger
No matter how long grave acts tarry in their conceal places, light always move in on them.
— Darmie Orem
To conceal an action is deceit. Even the husband is not aware of the deceit [by wife]. Lying is also deceit.
— Dada Bhagwan
If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out. -Elizabeth
— Jane Austen
The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.
— Montgomery Clift
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
— Solomon
The object of words is to conceal thoughts.
— Adrian Barnes
Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive
— Kate Burridge
God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
I try to conceal art with art.
— Jean-Philippe Rameau
That which I would discoverThe law of friendship bids me to conceal. — William Shakespeare