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Secrecy Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
- To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery,…
- The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never…
- Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.
More Secrecy Quotes
- While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive. — Sissela Bok
- Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. — Jeremy Bentham
- While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters… — John O. Brennan
- Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. — Thomas Carlyle
- Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public… — John le Carre
- I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order. — Sun Tzu
- The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything.… — Lewis Thomas