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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

Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it. — Horace

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

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality. — Paul Johnson

And must I not conceal myself like one who has swallowed gold- lest my soul should be ripped up? — Friedrich Nietzsche

In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them — Sun Tzu

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground. — Franz Grillparzer

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it. — Mark Twain

It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it. — Tommy Tenney

As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day. — Mark Twain

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

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal. — Dan Brown

One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is. — Sallust

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. — Lucretius

Hamilton's besetting fear was that American democracy would be spoiled by demagogues who would mouth populist shibboleths to conceal their despotism. — Ron Chernow

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile. — Ogden Nash

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. — William Osler

God is behind all things, but all things conceal God. Objects are black and humans are opaque. To love a person is to render them transparent — Victor Hugo

If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job. — Seth Godin

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

Charles Spurgeon's words: You may conceal your infirmity, even from your dearest friend, but you will not conceal it from your worst enemy. — Beth Moore

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

Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself. — Shakira

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

We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal. — Mark Twain

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

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves? — Walt Whitman

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues. — Henry Fielding

Masks reveal. They don't conceal. Masks reveal your cravings, your passion, your deepest most secret desires. — Chloe Thurlow

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. — Oliver Goldsmith

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude. — Leo Tolstoy

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

The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate. — Orrin Hatch

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

Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds. — Horace

Clothes are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of repressed vanity; — Alex Myers

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

Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth. — Demosthenes

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. — Kahlil Gibran

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

Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see. — Dean Koontz

Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive — Kate Burridge

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things. — Errol Morris

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

Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise
Of mortal men conceal'd their deities;
One laid aside his thunder, one his rod — Ovid

That which I would discover
The law of friendship bids me to conceal. — William Shakespeare