Art Quote by Thomas Carlyle

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

— Cato the Younger

“Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”

— Voltaire

It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought…

— Wilfred Bion

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

— Anonymous

“Speech is the faculty by which men conceal their thoughts.”

— Talleyrand

“I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that,…

— Gandhi

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

— William Osler

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Thought is a means of concealing Truth.

— Alan Watts

I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it…

— George Horace Lorimer