Quotes About Concealing The Truth

#1. Among other common lies, we have the _silent_ lie
the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they _speak_ no lie, they lie not at all.

Mark Twain

#2. By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

George Carlin

#3. She made no point of concealing the truth, for the truth was all she could bear now.

James Purdy

#4. Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

George Carlin

#5. It was after 2:00 A.M. before we got back to the graveyard. The Feds had kept us forever, like they didn't believe we were telling them the whole truth. Fancy that. I hated being accused of concealing evidence when I wasn't. Made me want to lie to them just so they wouldn't be disappointed.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#6. Nobody intends to put up a wall!

Walter Ulbricht

#7. The truth doesn't make you vulnerable - concealing it does.

Ann McMan

#8. I wondered about my inner child. In fact, I was troubled. Did I even have an inner child, I asked myself, given that, in essence, I'd just been born?

Sol Luckman

#9. If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

Bela Lugosi

#10. Thought is a means of concealing Truth.

Alan Watts

#11. If I think of the audience too much, then I'm going to start catering to them ... and it turns into entertainment. And I've got time for entertainment; I'm just not at all that interested in doing it myself. I'd rather go for some pretty raw expression.

Henry Rollins

#12. Peoples which bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence ...

Adolf Hitler

#13. A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

Yukio Mishima

#14. The question concerning technology is the question concerning the constellation in which revealing and concealing, in which the coming to presence of truth, comes to pass

Martin Heidegger

#15. All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us comfort from pain and sadness or use it to repel a truth too devastating to accept.

Emily Thorne

#16. Dressing down is a crime against humanity.

Simon Doonan

#17. A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth ...

Dorothy Nevill