Top 100 Conceals Quotes
#1. A mask partially conceals, but it also tells us that something is behind the mask.
Gary L. Thomas
#2. He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
Seneca The Younger
#3. grotesque character of everyday occurrences conceals from one the real misery of passions. BARNAVE While
Stendhal
#4. A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
Fisher Ames
#5. In this city, every deserted street corner conceals a crowd. It appears in a minute when something disrupts the way in which the world is supposed to work. It can disappear almost as instantaneously.
Jerry Pinto
#6. Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.
Maria Montessori
#7. Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.
Jose Saramago
#8. Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself.
Neville Goddard
#9. Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
Cato The Younger
#10. What sobriety conceals, drunkenness reveals.
Anonymous
#11. Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.
Jeanette Winterson
#12. Racial reasoning conceals these presuppositions behind a deceptive cloak of racial consensus - yet racial reasoning is seductive because it invokes an undeniable history of racial abuse and racial struggle.
Cornel West
#13. Progress is not a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary. It overturns the conventional wisdom of the present, which often conceals or ignores the clues to the future.
Dr. An Wang
#14. Custom is a shroud that conceals everything. Not without first encountering the uncustomary will we be able to recognize what is customary and, more importantly, to change it. Such is the impulse behind our conversation with the vampryoteuthis
Vilem Flusser
#15. The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.
Pietro Metastasio
#16. We are no longer blessed with innocence, nor do we deserve to be. Paradise may have been lost, but paradise is a bad bargain. It costs too much. It conceals serpents, and is littered with graves.
Susan Rivers
#17. Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it
Ibn Taymiyyah
#18. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.
Oscar Wilde
#19. Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and thus prevent their correction.
Thomas I. Emerson
#20. The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.
Albert Camus
#22. That's why Priscus is wisest of all: silence cannot be judged. Silence masks all things or no thing. Only Priscus can tell us what his silence conceals, but since he won't, we suspect him great.
Gore Vidal
#23. There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.
Rumi
#24. When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.
Herman Melville
#25. His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.
Richard Mitchell
#26. Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.
Albert Einstein
#27. Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.
Ambrose Bierce
#29. Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.
Albert Einstein
#30. The mock rationality of the debate conceals the arbitrariness of the will and power at work in its resolution. It
Alasdair MacIntyre
#31. For every Aruna story we hear there are hundreds of thousands that will never be heard, swept under the great rug of shame societies have so eloquently woven. It is up to us to speak up, to lift this heavy rug and reveal the ugliness it conceals.
Aysha Taryam
#32. A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules prescribed to it by organized knowledge. It ... rends the veil with which society conceals them, and perceives them anew.
Theodor Adorno
#33. A show of daring oft conceals great fear.
Lucan
#34. If you have a soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are that flame.
Cassandra Clare
#35. How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!
Ernest Hemingway,
#36. The indirectness of communication conceals the formation of schisms - different team members use terms differently but don't realize it.
Eric Evans
#37. Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Mark Twain
#38. It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.
William Penn
#40. To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated business of living the life of a human being.
S.I. Hayakawa
#41. Excessive symmetry is either unnatural and conceals some human thought behind it, or else supernatural and conceals some mystery.
Luis Fernando Verissimo
#42. A sincere friend conceals all your deformities, deceives and convince others that you are extremely perfect, the insincere will tell the truth of destruction, leave you open for others to glare and laugh.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#43. If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him;
Jane Austen
#44. It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.
Jane Austen
#45. If our religion is something objective, then we must never avert our eyes from those elements in it which seem puzzling or repellent; for it will be precisely the puzzling or the repellent which conceals what we do not yet know and need to know.
C.S. Lewis
#46. A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity
Joseph Goebbels
#47. Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Voltaire
#48. The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth
it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.
Jean Baudrillard
#49. He did not joke, as the newspapers dared report, for sarcasm is bitter and conceals ferments of despair.
Jean Genet
#50. In the first place, the word universal conceals a gross sophism.
Frederic Bastiat
#51. I am troubled, immeasurably
by your eyes.
I am struck by the feather
of your soft reply.
The sound of glass
speaks quick, disdain
and conceals
what your eyes fight
to explain.
Jim Morrison
#52. Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#53. Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
Virginia Woolf
#54. The spirit of rebellion can exist only in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The
Albert Camus
#55. Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#56. We want to discover who we are without the burden of sight. It's easy to believe we are the same inside because we look so similar. Sanna says only in the dark can we know the truth, but I'm not so sure. Darkness conceals.
Sara Grant
#57. Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.
Albert Camus
#58. What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
Marcel Proust
#59. A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
Ashwin Sanghi
#60. There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.
Walter Savage Landor
#61. A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands without incident often conceals whatever lessons or caveats it might hold for the next generation of engineers.
Henry Petroski
#62. u The mouth of the righteous is v a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked n conceals violence.
Anonymous
#63. The ethereal beauty of the female semblance conceals that they really are dangerous like a great white shark in the most peaceful and deep water.
(quote from the exhibit at the Cultural Museum)
Czon
#64. Pride becomes the blanket transgression that conceals the rest of our sins, allowing us to remain blind to them.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#65. Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.
Horace
#66. I perceive that marble conceals a multitude of sins.
Aldous Huxley
#67. How should they know? I can't reveal
to a single friend what my soul conceals,
whom I'm in love with or what I believe -
my dreams, my thoughts - or why I grieve.
Hristo Botev
#68. In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath.
Khalil Gibran
#69. Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to discover the merits of an author, but the motives of his critic.
Charles Caleb Colton
#70. 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
#71. A firm's income statement may be, likened to a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.
Burton G. Malkiel
#72. In country, as in people, a plain exterior often conceals
hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with.
Aldo Leopold
#73. A sober heart conceals, what a drunken mouth reveals, or in your case, a drunken body and lips.
Taryn Plendl
#74. There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place within us, around us, or through us, contains and conceals His divine action.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#76. The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.
Max Jacob
#77. What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Soren Kierkegaard
#78. Style, like poplin, all too often conceals eczema.
Albert Camus
#79. This haze of blood must subside, the palace must collapse under the weight of the riches it conceals, the orgy must finish and the time come to awaken.
Gustave Flaubert
#80. Thus the rigid North-South interpretation of the Civil War conceals - and is intended to conceal - the active complicity of Democrats across the country to save, protect, and even extend the peculiar institution.
Dinesh D'Souza
#81. In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him.
Margaret Of Cortona
#82. Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.
Pearl S. Buck
#83. No one conceals something in his heart, but Allah causes it to be seen on his face or in a slip of the tongue.
Uthman Ibn Affan
#84. true intimacy is only built around the freedom to disagree: "He who conceals his hatred has lying lips" (Prov. 10:18).
Henry Cloud
#85. Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and without its being thought about. It is from this, in my opinion, that grace largely derives.
Baldassare Castiglione
#86. We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.
R.C. Sproul
#87. The sage, while clad in homespun, conceals on his person a priceless piece of jade.
Lao-Tzu
#88. The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men.
George Edward Woodberry
#89. The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
#91. Someone who conceals his curiosity, is overwhelmed with information.
Jack Vance
#92. the fallen of the baboon into the river is the risen of the joy of the crocodile. Though the crocodile becomes happy, it conceals its joy until it deploys all its necessary deft and strength to take captive of the Baboon
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#93. With cities, it is as if with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear.
Italo Calvino
#94. It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one's own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.5
Jonathan Haidt
#95. It may perhaps be pleasant, but it is sometimes a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#96. The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign
Heraclitus
#97. The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.
Andre Maurois
#98. Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#99. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
Italo Calvino
#100. Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
