Jim Valvano Quotes

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

I'm a very secretive person.

Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.

That's for me to know, and for you to find out.

There is very seldom any true secret.

I just don't like the feeling of knowing something that somebody else doesn't.

If only Uncle Monty knew what we know," Violet said, "and Stephano knew that he knew what we know. But Uncle Monty doesn't know what we know, and Stephano knows that he doesn't know what we know." "I know," Klause said. "I know you know," Violet said

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.

The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are the people with something to hide.

We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know

People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they’re afraid.

A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.

That there is a secret itself is a secret.

I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!

If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.

The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.

The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.

Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth.

Someday I'll tell you all of it," I say. "I'd like that," he says. "No," I say. "I promise you won't.

So what are you going to tell her?" "A little help?" I pleaded. "What does she want to know?" He shook his head, grinning wickedly. "That's not fair." "No, you not sharing what you know-now that's not fair.