“It is more sinful to conceal the power of the atom than it is to reveal it.”
Statement, 9 March 1954. Quoted in Peter G Boyle's The Churchill-Eisenhower Correspondence 1953-55
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American politician 1904–1987Related quotes
“All writers have concealed more than they revealed.”
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Context: One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Thirteen, The Whole- Earth Conspiracy
“The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.”
D'ogni pianta palesa l'aspetto
Il difetto, che il tronco nasconde
Per le fronde, dal frutto, o dal fior.
Part I.
Giuseppe Riconosciuto (1733)
“Epidemiology is like a bikini: what is revealed is interesting; what is concealed is crucial.”
PNAS (Feb. 1991)
“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“In many ways doth the full heart reveal
The presence of the love it would conceal.”
Poems Written in Later Life, motto (1826)
“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray