Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.
What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.
I prefer people who don't get caught, and if they do get caught, I prefer people who don't give in.
Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth
I'm a very secretive person.
Nothing is so tantalizing to journalists as some answer they can't get. If you want to appeal to political journalists,…you hide something from us …
Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth.
I have never regretted erring on the side of withholding information.
The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are the people with something to hide.
Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.
I know what I want to do and there's no point giving my secrets away.
I definitely keep myself secret.
And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.
People and nations wither away without the freedom to question what is presented to them as the truth.
I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm mysterious. It just means I'm not inclined to go there.
When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.
Someday I'll tell you all of it," I say. "I'd like that," he says. "No," I say. "I promise you won't.
Usually we are saying only part of the truth.
Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.
Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.
Entertainment works by withholding content with the purpose of increasing its value. And, when you think about it, those two are just vastly different approaches, but they can be bridged.
I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.
The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption.
