Ali ibn Abi Talib Quotes

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

The only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all.

It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112

It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.

Secrets don't stay secrets very long, even when journalists decide to censor themselves.

I really fight for my privacy.

If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets?

The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

Knowledge is a form of power and most institutions exhibit an understandable reluctance to dissipate this power in the absence of compensating advantages

For me, I'm a super private person.

Everyone has secrets. Especially me.

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.

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

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.

Everyone has a secret. Right? Of course I have a secret. I think maybe you too?

There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.

Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

People are secretive when they have secrets.

A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.

The Foreign Office knows no secrets.

everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

You can take better care of your secret than another can.