“He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Pt. II, Bk. I, ch. 7.
1830s, The French Revolution. A History (1837)
“He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Pt. II, Bk. I, ch. 7.
1830s, The French Revolution. A History (1837)
“An option hides where we don't want it to hide.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 184
“Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.”
Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
Source: Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings
“To hide our eyes to make others believe we are hiding tears.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“Don’t ask from whom the economy hides; it hides from you!”
Fred E. Foldvary (1946) American economist
"Somewhere Hidden Something Goes." The Progress Report http://www.progress.org/2009/fold646.htm (January 3, 2010) <br class="br">The Progress Report
“You don’t hide information by destroying it. You hide it by swamping it with bad information.”
Michael Swanwick book Stations of the Tide
Source: Stations of the Tide (1991), Chapter 8, “Conversations in the Puzzle Palace” (p. 139)
“Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.”
Alexander Smith (1829–1867) Scottish poet and essayist
"The Fear of Dying".
City Poems (1857)