But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
Abraham Maslow
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
George Carlin
Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.
Karen Duffy
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
William Hazlitt
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
Franklin P. Jones
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Guy Kawasaki
People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
Bernard de Mandeville
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
Christopher Lasch
The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.
Douglas Feith
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
E. M. Forster
Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good.
Julian Assange
Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.
Rick Moody
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