{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Jane Austen","tags":["attachment","clichés","concealment","empowerment","feminism","ignorance","intelligence","irony","knowledge","preconceptions","prejudice","sarcasm","stereotypes","vanity","women"],"id":9722,"author_id":"Jane+Austen"},{"text":"Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.","author":"Voltaire","tags":["concealment","speech","thoughts"],"id":34221,"author_id":"Voltaire"},{"text":"There’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.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["action","actions","aphorism","aphorisms","bad","bad-people","bad-person","badness","character","characters","conceal","concealment","facade","facades","good","good-people","good-person","goodness","humor","humour","illusion","illusions","impress","impression","impressions","mask","masks","personalities","personality","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","satire"],"id":69401,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["above-and-beyond","assurance","certainty","concealment","confidence","foolishness","humility","intelligence","philosophy","pretentiousness","profound","self-assurance","theory","within"],"id":70615,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The pain you hide leaves the deepest scars.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["concealment","denial","pain"],"id":131678,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"Elizabeth 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.","author":"Jane Austen","tags":["concealment","cry","feelings","laugh","pride-and-prejudice"],"id":164688,"author_id":"Jane+Austen"},{"text":"It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["concealment","egocerity","greed","mind","psychology","sincerity","sufi","sufis","sufism"],"id":193217,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.","author":"Alasdair Gray","tags":["concealment","knowledge","science","secrets","wisdom"],"id":204849,"author_id":"Alasdair+Gray"},{"text":"Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["animals","aphorism","aphorisms","conceal","concealment","creatures","culture","illusion","illusions","impression","mother-nature","nature","pretend","pretense","symbolism","symbols","veil"],"id":233073,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["concealment","dark-plans","darkness","stealth"],"id":240897,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}