Hiding In Plain Sight Quotes

• All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.

  Robin Sloan

  Knowing, Secret, World

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.288, Macmillan

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• Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sight, Sometimes, Hiding

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• There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

  Larry Dossey

  Sight, Ordinary, Treasure

  Larry Dossey (2007). “The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness”, p.1, Harmony

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• Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

  James Geary

  Sight, Mind, Influence

  "Metaphors in Mind". The Macmillan Dictionary blog, www.macmillandictionaryblog.com. April 11, 2011.

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• The state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight.

  Mike Lofgren

  Sight, Hiding, States

  "Essay: Anatomy of the Deep State". billmoyers.com. February 21, 2014.

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• The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.

  Alex Gibney

  Powerful, Sight, Church

  Source: collider.com

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• This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under the shadow of natural objects, and to fix them with the hand, presenting to plain sight what does not actually exist.

  Cennino Cennini

  Sight, Hands, Order

  Cennino Cennini (1954). “The Craftsman's Handbook”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• There are rules for hiding in plain sight. The first rule, or at least the one that Sandor repeats most often, is “Don’t be stupid.” I’m about to break that rule by taking off my pants.

  Pittacus Lore

  Stupid, Sight, Often Is

  Pittacus Lore (2012). “I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Nine's Legacy”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• That's another one of Sandor's rules for hiding in plain sight: always appear to be weaker than I actually am. Never push it.

  Pittacus Lore

  Sight, Hiding, Plain Sight

  Pittacus Lore (2012). “I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Nine's Legacy”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

  Robin Sloan

  Sight, Knowing, Secret

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.288, Macmillan

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• There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. It takes forty-one seconds to climb a ladder three stories tall. It's not easy to imagine the year 3012, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. We have new capabilities now—strange powers we're still getting used to. The mountains are a message from Aldrag the Wyrm-Father. Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

  Robin Sloan

  Father, Mean, Knowing

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