Secret Quotes

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It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.

Winston Churchill

Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But I say to you that when you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born.
And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life,
And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates for a secret doubt.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside. Quite a number of people console themselves with this thought, now that totalitarianism in one form or another is visibly on the up-grade in every part of the world. Out in the street the loudspeakers bellow, the flags flutter from the rooftops, the police with their tommy-guns prowl to and fro, the face of the Leader, four feet wide, glares from every hoarding; but up in the attics the secret enemies of the regime can record their thoughts in perfect freedom—that is the idea, more or less.

Everything is both a trap and a display; the secret reality of the object is what the Other makes of it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.

No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.

Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Long hours of labour seem to be the secret of the rational and healthful processes, which are to raise the condition of the labourer by an improvement of his mental and moral powers and to make a rational consumer out of him.

The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

That is the secret of all culture: it does not provide artificial limbs, wax noses or spectacles—that which can provide these things is, rather, only sham education. Culture is liberation, the removal of all the weeds, rubble and vermin that want to attack the tender buds of the plant.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Miguel de Cervantes

Perhaps the nuclear physicists have come so near to the ultimate secrets that He thinks it time to bring their activities to a stop. And what simpler method could He devise than to let them carry their ingenuity to the point where they exterminate the human race?

Bertrand Russell

Seemeth it nothing to you, never to accuse, never to blame either God or Man? to wear ever the same countenance in going forth as in coming in? This was the secret of Socrates: yet he never said that he knew or taught anything... Who amongst you makes this his aim? Were it indeed so, you would gladly endure sickness, hunger, aye, death itself.

Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the "old one." I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice.

Albert Einstein

And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

Seven kinds of people will be sheltered under the shade of God on the Day of Judgment... They are: a just ruler, a young man who passed his youth in the worship and service of God... one whose heart is attached to the mosque... two people who love each other for the sake of God... a man who is invited to sin... but declines, saying 'I fear God'... one who spends his charity in secret, without making a show... and one who remembers God in solitude so that his eyes overflow.

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare