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 Austen

Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

— Voltaire

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.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

— Criss Jami

The pain you hide leaves the deepest scars.

— Marty Rubin

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.

— Jane Austen

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

— Idries Shah

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.

— Alasdair Gray

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

— William Shakespeare