"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
"Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths."
"Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm."
"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
"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
"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 administer..."
- Jane Austen
"Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals."
"The pain you hide leaves the deepest scars."
- Marty Rubin
"It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed."
- Idries Shah
"Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
- Voltaire