Terence McKenna Quotes

Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.

There is very seldom any true secret.

And when you have it, what then? Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust.

He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.

I'm good at keeping secrets.

I value my ability to keep state secrets.

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

The information I received as a member of the National Security Council, in my capacity as Vice—President, was so confidential that I would lose my right arm before I divulge it to anyone, even to members of my own family…

Secrets don’t make friends.

I'm really bad at keeping secrets.

I'm not good at keeping secrets.

I'd never discuss anything confidential.

I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

The U.S. government places considerable trust in those given access to classified information, and we are committed to prosecuting those who abuse that trust.

Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.

If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.

Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.

Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent.

Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.

The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness.