Private Knowledge Quotes

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.

Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

When Michael Jackson died, I knew him very well. And everybody was talking about Michael Jackson. They didn't know him. They knew nothing. Some of them never even met him. And I sort of laughed to myself.

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the members of the group holds privately. It's the combination of all those pieces of independent information, some of them right, some of the wrong, that keeps the group wise.

I feel like I know it is from my heart and God knows it is for a good cause, it is not necessary to be made public.

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

One should not lift the rod against our enemies upon the private information of another.

Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.

Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.

There's something so delicious about holding onto a secret; it's something just for you.

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

I personally know Donald Trump, and I know a lot of amazing really kind acts that he's done one-on-one with people. And the candidate that I see is not the person I know.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.

There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.