“ Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. Criss Jami
“ Lately I have come to believe that an as yet undiscovered human need and even a property of matter is the desire for revelation. The truth within us has a way of coming out despite all conscious effor… Susan Griffin
“ Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm. Criss Jami
“ It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed. Idries Shah
“ She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administer… Jane Austen
“ There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore. Criss Jami
“ This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought. Ian Rankin
“ Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried. Jane Austen
“ Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it. Alasdair Gray