concealment of truth Quotes

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.

She turned to Frizz. "So you understand the problem? You can't let Tally know about Radical Honesty. There's no telling what she'll do if she finds out you could ruin her plans." Frizz's eyebrows rose. "So let me get this straight, Aya-chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?" "We need another plan," Hiro said.

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to wish to teach the whole truth about the Gods to all produces contempt in the foolish, because they cannot understand, and lack of zeal in the good, whereas to conceal the truth by myths prevents the contempt of the foolish, and compels the good to practice philosophy.

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

You always have to lie. I've been in plays that people don't enjoy and I pray that they lie to my face when I come outside.

Thought is a means of concealing Truth.

Change lays her hand not upon the truth.

Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself.

Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.

The cover-up, more than the initial wrongdoing, is what is most likely to bring you down.

The point here is not just that an image represents God as having body and parts, whereas in reality he has neither. But the point really goes much deeper. The heart of the objection to pictures and images is that they inevitably conceal most, if not all, of the truth about the personal nature and character of the divine Being whom they represent.