#secrecy

There are springs in the mind from which others cannot drink. ↗

— Clay Griffith

#mind-thoughts #secrecy #nature

You should not honor men more than truth. ↗

— Plato

#honor #secrecy #truth #men

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#element #even #goodness #mysterious #secrecy

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news. ↗

— John le Carre

#better #between #contemptuous #demonstrated #digest

We don't need secrecy. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#secrecy

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#am #assistants #ever #far #his

The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films. ↗

— Karen Allen

#anything #feel #film #films #go

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State. ↗

— Duc De Richelieu

#essential #first #secrecy #state

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#historically #inherently #oaths #open #open society

At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#chapters #circumstances #definitely #done #everything