The essence of control is to remain hidden from view, is it not?

Honey what reveals you is what you hide away.

Character lies more concealed, and out of the reach of common observation.

In everybody's life there are hidden chapters which they hope may never be known.

Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all

It is manifest that behind the so-called curtain which is supposed to conceal the inner world, there is nothing to be seen unless we go behind it ourselves, as much in order that we may see, as that there may be something behind there which can be seen.

Objects are concealed from our view, not so much because they are out of the course of our visual ray as because we do not bring our minds and eyes to bear on them, for there is no power to see in the eye itself, any more than in any other jelly.

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something — because it is always before one's eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all. Unless that fact has at some time struck him. — And this means: we fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and most powerful.

The Hidden Wisdom and Why It is Concealed

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Poison, in my experience, is always hidden; it seems to me we never know its color.

We cannot describe it. We cannot reveal it. And when we do, we disappear.