#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

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

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#between #secrecy #speak #stadium #thus

They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they get out to the floor. And it's hard to lick em at that stage. They're a closed corporation. When they stick together, you can't lick em on the floor. ↗

— John William McCormack

#anything #closed #corporation #find #floor

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#lies #like #much #nothing #others

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#burden #burdened #diagnosis #enough #secrecy

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#almost #anonymity #because #continued #dreaded

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

— Duc De Richelieu

#essential #first #secrecy #state