She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
— Jane AustenMen employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
— VoltaireThere’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.
— Mokokoma MokhonoanaI imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.
— Criss JamiThe pain you hide leaves the deepest scars.
— Marty RubinElizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.
— Jane AustenIt is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.
— Idries ShahBaxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.
— Alasdair GrayCulture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.
— Mokokoma MokhonoanaStars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.
— William Shakespeare