Secrecy Quotes

254 quotes by 207 authors

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker… — Gregory Bateson
Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the… — Guy Debord
Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount… — BrenÃ© Brown
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state. — Cardinal Richelieu
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. — Samuel Johnson
Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or… — William H. Gass
If I were to disclose all their rituals, I think that it would be easy to prove that witches are not diabolists; but the oaths… — Gerald Gardner
I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself. — Daniel Schorr
Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure. — Robert J. Sawyer
So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep… — Maria Monk
Abuse exists because of secrecy. If I can use this platform and talk about it and break the silence, somebody can get the help and… — Chris Witty
Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves. — Nicolas Chamfort
O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate… — Sun Tzu
In our system, grand juries take every charge, every lie, and they try to sort the truth from the lies, and then they move forward… — Paul Begala
Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy. — Harrison Salisbury
A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence,… — Hakim Bey
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask… — Henry Bessemer
Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not… — William Shakespeare
Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening up old closets… — Harlan Cleveland

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