Keeping Secrets quotes
70 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore."
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly."
"Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us."
"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."
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"If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself."
"The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn."
"A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets."
"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses."
"I tried to keep us together, you were busy keeping secrets"
"If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend."
"It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."
"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
"How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?"
"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues."
"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
"A man's most open actions have a secret side to them."
"We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones."
"There is a lurking fear that some things are not “meant" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make."
"No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child."
"There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets."
"Trade your secrets and become who you are."
"In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information."
"...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them."
"I am literally the worst person at keeping secrets. I'd be the worst spy of all time."
