Collection Of Wise Quotations About Secrecy
1. Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
- Thomas Carlyle
2. If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
- David Nicholls
3. Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the state.
- Cardinal Richelieu
4. Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
- Abraham Maslow
5. Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.
- Sissela Bok
6. Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
- Edward Teller
7. All secrets are in print provided on knows where to look for them.
- Lewis Namier
8. Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
- Johann Goethe
9. If you wish another to keep secret, first keep it to yourself.
- Seneca
10. While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
- Sissela Bok
11. Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
- Samuel Johnson
12. If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
- Alexander Smith
