Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody's lives. I mean everybody's lives, and guilt is part of the fabric of everybody's lives.

I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

Keep an eye on him who enters announcing that what he asks is secret

The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

There are some things I don’t tell the President. It’s better if he doesn’t know.

Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

Keeping secrets is hard.

I don't want to paint everybody with the same broad brush. But I do think that the majority of folks now in the briefing room, that are going into journalism - they're not there for the facts and the pursuit of the truth.

I never want to make people upset, but sometimes we may. When I interview people, I try to make it clear that our obligation is to what we uncover and to telling that story and to presenting it fairly and making sure everyone has a say.

Everybody has secrets.

Oh, I can keep many secrets, so I would be a phenomenal secret agent. I love secrets.

To give the personal details of Ukrainians to the Russian authorities would not only be against the law, but also a betrayal of those millions of people in Ukraine who trusted us.

So many times in the middle of an interview I've had people say, 'Can we go off the record?'

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

I believe democracy requires a 'sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.

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

When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.