"If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight, Let it be tenable in your silence still. And whatsoever else shall hap to-night, Give it an understanding, but no tongue."

"Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state."

"The trouble with secrecy isn't that it inhibits science. ... The trouble with secrecy is that it denies to the government itself the wisdom and the resources of the whole community ... of the whole country ..."

"Every true secret must exclude itself from the profane. Anyone who understands it is, through ones own accord, legitimately a person in the know."

"Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity."

"Is a secret still a secret if everyone knows it?"

"Nothing circulates so rapidly as a secret."

"Every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest."

"“Secrets in Contact: Secrecy as a Promoter of Contacts between Religious Traditions,” edited by Knut Martin Stünkel, Anna Akasoy, and Georgios Halkias (Leiden: Brill, 2026), is a notable academic volume that challenges a pervasive yet often unexamined prejudice. For years, both public discourse and scholarship have been influenced by what Rosita Šorytė has termed “secretophobia”: the reflexive suspicion that secrecy in religion is inherently sinister, serving as a veil for abuse, manipulation, or separatism. In contrast, this book demonstrates that secrets do not merely divide; they also connect, travel, translate, and create bridges between traditions. … Overall, and notwithstanding the unfortunate inclusion of [Hildegard] Piegeler’s chapter, “Secrets in Contact” serves as a persuasive response to “secretophobia.” The volume demonstrates that secrecy is not inherently pathological but rather a human strategy that can be protective, playful, or transformative. While secrets can create divisions, they also have the capacity to connect traditions, generate shared vocabularies, and establish imaginative spaces for interreligious engagement. While today secrecy is frequently associated with danger, this book underscores that the hidden can also function as a site of encounter."

"While there's no 'fair use' exception when it comes to trade secrets, anyone who discovers a trade secret without violating a confidentiality agreement can disseminate it freely. For example, if you board a commuter train in Atlanta and discover that a Coca-Cola employee has left the secret formula for the company's flagship product on one of the seats, you have no obligation not to reveal it to the world. More important, this means that newspapers often may legally publish material that may have been obtained illegally, as long as they did not induce the illegal taking or know about it beforehand and as long as no one was induced or solicited by the newspaper to steal the material in question."

"A wise man is he who keeps his own secrets and adheres to charity."

"But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased."

"The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret."

"In the heat of summer sunshineI miss you like nobody elseIn the heat of summer sunshineI'll kiss you and nobody needs to know"

"I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise of administering the government in the honest, simple, and plain manner which is consistent with its character and purposes. They have learned that mystery and concealment in the management of their affairs cover tricks and betrayal. The statesmanship they require consists in honesty and frugality, a prompt response to the needs of the people as they arise, and a vigilant protection of all their varied interests."

"Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent."

"I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possessed of their contents, and shall have had opportunity to deliberate on the consequences of their publication; after which time, I submit them to your wisdom."

"Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity."

"Let those who are friendly to you be many, <br"

"Whatever, in connection with my professional service, or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret."

"CONFIDANT, CONFIDANTE, n. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B, confided by him to C."

"Discover magazine, May 2007,Steve Ornes:"

"Popular Psychology - An Encyclopedia (2005) psychology professor Luis A. Cordon"

"The Road to Malpsychia: Humanistic Psychology and Our Discontents by J. Milton (San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2002)"

"2002 Fringe Psychotherapies: The Public at Risk"

""Primal Therapy", Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology, 2nd ed. Gale Group, 2001, Timothy Moore"

"The Death of Psychotherapy: From Freud to Alien Abductions. (2000) Donald A. Eisner ."

"Soul Snatchers: The Mechanics of Cults (December 1999, , Algora Publishing), French psychiatrist and cult expert Dr. Jean-Marie Abgrall"

"1998 Insane Therapy sociologist Marybeth F. Ayella"

"The 1996 book "Crazy" Therapies :"

"Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Clare, Let's Talk About Me (1981), (BBC. :"

"In the book New Age Blues (1979, Michael Rossman:"

"Los Angeles Times book critic Robert Kirsch wrote in his "Truth of Neurotic Behavior," March 27, 1970 article about the book The Primal Scream:"

"It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions."

"Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it."

"Maybe tomorrow when He looks down Every green field and every town All of his children, every nation There'll be peace and good, brotherhood… Crystal blue persuasion."

"I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them."

"There is hardly an example of a mass movement achieving vast proportions and a durable organization solely by persuasion. ...It was the temporal sword that made Christianity a world religion. Conquest and conversion went hand in hand... Where Christianity failed to gain or retain the backing of state power, it achieved neither a wide nor a permanent hold. ..."The most flourishing periods for Mohammedanism have been at the times of its greatest political ascendency..." The Reformation made headway only when it gained the backing of the ruling prince or the local government. In the case of the French Revolution, "It was the armies of the Revolution, not its ideas, that penetrated throughout the whole of Europe." ...The threat of communism at present does not come from the forcefulness of its preaching but from the fact that it is backed by one of the mightiest armies on earth."

"A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process."

"What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views."

"Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world."

"I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind."

"Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me."

"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art."

"Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there is so much suffering, misfortune and misery in the world."