159 Hidden Secrets Quotes

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Famous Hidden Secrets Quotes

Secrets aren't secret. They're just hidden treasures, waiting to be exploited. — Stephen White

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. — Roald Dahl

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets. — Cory Doctorow

A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still. — Karlfried Graf Durckheim

somethings can only be seen in the shadows — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. — Elbert Hubbard

In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories — Sol Stein

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. — George Bernard Shaw

A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one. — Heraclitus

Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country. — Chanakya

Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity. — Marshall McLuhan

Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen — Hamza Yusuf

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. — Charlotte Bronte

Hidden from the eyes, out from the heart. — Polish Proverbs

Look within!... The secret is inside you. — Huineng

Short Hidden Secrets Quotes

  • Things forbidden have a secret charm. — Tacitus
  • The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally. — Joanne Greenberg
  • All of the stock market’s secrets are in plain sight. But few eyes can see them. — Thomas Phelps
  • Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. — Blaise Pascal
  • The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets. — Sara Shepard
  • My secrets must be poetic to be believable. — Mick Jagger
  • There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye. — W. H. Auden
  • Nigeria is one of the best-kept secrets. — Aliko Dangote
  • The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. — Alexander Pope
Hidden secrets quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

Secret Is Secret Quotes

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. — Nikola Tesla

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. — Socrates

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. — Colin Powell

Hidden secrets quote You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is
You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets. — Al-Ghazali

The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people. — Smith Wigglesworth

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. — Dick Gregory

Hidden secrets quote You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

The secret is to believe in your dreams; in your potential that you can be like your star, keep searching, keep believing and don’t lose faith in yourself. — Neymar

The Secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. — Socrates

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one. — Mark Twain

Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence." — Rumi

Hiding Secrets Quotes

What are friends ? Friends are people that you think are your friends But they really your enemies, with secret indentities And disguises, to hide they true colors So just when you think you close enough to be brothers They wanna come back and cut your throat when you ain't lookin'. — Sayings

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent. — Ludwig van Beethoven

Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe. — Andrea Gibson

Hidden secrets quote Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say
Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say

Do not leave me, hide in my heart like a secret, wind around my head like a turban. "I come and go as I please," you say, "swift as a heartbeat." You can tease me as much as you like but never leave me. — Rumi

I believe in the immortality of the Theatre, it is a most joyous place to hide, for all those who have secretly put their childhood in their pockets and run off and away with it, to play on to the end of their days. — Max Reinhardt

She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret. — Arthur Golden

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. — Albert Einstein

The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness! — Gustave Flaubert

Knowledge is power, which is why people who had it in the past often tried to make a secret of it. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not from hiding it. — Peter Drucker

here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart) — E. E. cummings

Dark Secrets Quotes

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,in secret, between the shadow and the soul. — Pablo Neruda

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. — Pablo Neruda

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. — Sylvia Plath

Hidden secrets quote We all carry these things inside that no one can see. They hold us down like anchors and they drown
We all carry these things inside that no one can see. They hold us down like anchors and they drown us out at sea.

Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. — Susanna Kaysen

It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret. — Vernon Howard

Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified. — Winona Ryder

Hidden secrets quote All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. — Pablo Neruda

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. — Anthony Hecht

If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. — Jed Rubenfeld

All I have to say is, Love one another - that is the height of all philosophy. It is beyond all religions. It is the secret of joy - the fountain of Perpetual Youth - the only rainbow on life's dark cloud. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Kept Secrets Quotes

His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life. — Veronica Roth

The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew about. Jonah kept it in his sock drawer next to a photograph of Jonah and a girl with sad eyes, taken in one of those railway station photo booths. — Melina Marchetta

The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the various mystery schools have kept the flame alive by passing on the secret techniques for attaining enlightenment from the time of Atlantis to our present day. — Frederick Lenz

Hidden secrets quote The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the ne
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change. — Joe Biden

The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king. — Stephen King

Time is the best kept secret of the rich. — Jim Rohn

Hidden secrets quote There are two rules for success:  1. Never tell everything you know.
There are two rules for success: 1. Never tell everything you know.

Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery. — Liam Neeson

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets. — Lauren Oliver

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. — George Orwell

Your giving is sacred and therefore should be kept secret. It is wise to give quietly with no strings attached. — Catherine Ponder

Keeping Secrets Quotes

If you keep my secret, this strawberry is yours. - Tsugumi Ohba

If you keep my secret, this strawberry is yours. — Tsugumi Ohba

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. — Maximilien Robespierre

I never brag, how real i keep it, cause thats the best secret. - Nas

I never brag, how real i keep it, cause thats the best secret. — Nas

I'll give you this strawberry if you keep it a secret. --L (Death Note) - Tsugumi Ohba

I'll give you this strawberry if you keep it a secret. --L (Death Note) — Tsugumi Ohba

The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful - never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety. — Sathya Sai Baba

Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. - Proverbs

Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. — Proverbs

Hidden secrets quote The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and the leaf. — Rumi

Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking. — Fats Domino

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. — Sigmund Freud

The Secret to a long and healthy life is to be stress-free. Be grateful for everything you have, stay away from people who are negative stay smiling and keep running. — Fauja Singh

Dirty Secrets Quotes

Growing up in a small Alaska town, domestic violence was that dirty little secret nobody talked about. We must start talking about it. For too long, we have been providing protection to the wrong people. — Lisa Murkowski

It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky. — Muriel Spark

You wanna look pretty though, in my video — Ol' Dirty Bastard

Hidden secrets quote Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows. — Katharine Graham

'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw. — Frank Miller

The secret of the creative life is how to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. We're all in the dirty laundry business and we're being paid to take risks and look silly. Race car drivers get paid to risk their lives in a more concrete way; we get paid to risk our lives in an emotional way. — Paul Schrader

Hidden secrets quote Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential
Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power. Let difficulties know that you too are difficult.

When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret; I'm glad it's coming out. — Charles Barkley

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism. — Henry Cisneros

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set. — Andrew Sullivan

The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for. — Robert McKee

Darkest Secrets Quotes

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone. — Alan Watts

Believe this: Everything you need to be great is already inside you. All your ambitions and secrets, your darkest dreams . . . they’re waiting for you to just let go. — Tim Grover

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone. — Conor Oberst

Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your goodness, your rightness, your church attendance, and all of the wise, moral, mature decisions you have made and actions you have taken. — Rob Bell

No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets. — Tupac Shakur

If depression has been viewed as a taboo subject in the church, then suicide and suicidal thoughts are the darkest secret of all. Talking about it doesn't make it more real or powerful; it brings it out of the shadows into the light and love of Christ. — Sheila Walsh

I think my friends tell me their deepest darkest secrets only because they know it won't ever come out. — Shay Mitchell

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know? — Kevin Spacey

My dad was a bedwetter; I think his dad was a bedwetter. I like to talk about it because it's something that I thought would be my deepest, darkest secret my whole life, and then you become an adult, and it's not. — Sarah Silverman

What is love? Love is when one person knows all of your secrets, deepest, darkest, most dreadful secrets of which no one else in the world knows. And yet in the end, that one person does not think any less of you. — Aleatha Romig

Sharing Secrets Quotes

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you. — Chanakya

My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy. — Ron Paul

I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain; I have a secret that I cannot share. — Omar Khayyam

Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a train. There the faint signs are left, coins of time and water, debris ,celestial ash and the irreplaceable rapture of sharing in the labour of soitude in the sand. — Pablo Neruda

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people. — W. H. Auden

The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator. — Peter Thiel

We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet. — Pam Brown

Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object. — J. I. Packer

Secret Places Quotes

I come from a place where people get high, the grades get low, and if someone has a secret EVERYONE KNOWS. — Wiz Khalifa

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. — Roald Dahl

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul - Plato

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul — Plato

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer. - William Wilberforce

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer. — William Wilberforce

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. — Roald Dahl

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you. - Roald Dahl

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you. — Roald Dahl

Do not place hope in finding a secret technique. Polish the mind through ceaseless training; that is the key to effective techniques. — Kyuzo Mifune

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go. — Golda Meir

The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. — William Wordsworth

Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty. — Rumi

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More Hidden Secrets Quotes

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. - Mike Murdock quote

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. — Mike Murdock

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. — Buddha

Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us. — Teresa of Avila

Truth is not over there, wherever over there is. Truth is neither housed in religious rituals nor secret doctrines, nor in a guru's touch or beatific smile, nor in exotic locations or ancient temples. Truth is quite literally the only thing that does exist. It is not hidden but in plain view, not lacking but abundantly present. — Adyashanti

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high. — William Goldman

Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I. — Ahmad Shamloo

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm sure the red fern has grown and has completely covered the two little mounds. I know it is still there, hiding its secret beneath those long, red leaves, but it wouldn't be hidden from me for part of my life is buried there, too. Yes, I know it is still there, for in my heart I believe the legend of the sacred red fern. — Wilson Rawls

It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where. — James Clavell

In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on----in quest of the secret which is hidden over there----beyond the horizon? — Eugene O'Neill

My home in Dallas is wonderful. I can walk everywhere. It's a pretty good hidden secret, Dallas. There are wonderful restaurants and a wonderful nightlife. It's just a beautiful city to be in. — Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

But in order to be strong, you have to love yourself, and in order to love yourself, you need thorough self-knowledge, you need to know everything about yourself, including your most hidden secrets, the ones most difficult to accept. — Susanna Tamaro

Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. — Yousuf Karsh

Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government. — Bob Woodward

There are no magic wands, no hidden tracks, and no secret handshakes that can bring you immediate success, but with time, energy and determination you can get there. — Darren Rowse

If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception. — Rumi

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure. — Dalai Lama

You must never conclude, even though everything goes wrong, that you cannot succeed. Even at the worst there is a way out, a hidden secret that can turn failure into success and despair into happiness. No situation is so dark that there is not a ray of light — Norman Vincent Peale

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us. — Georges Bataille

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire. — Bobby Unser

Hidden nature is secret God. — Sri Aurobindo

There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface. — Michael C. Hall

Nobody really knows her Except the chosen few Her secrets are kept hidden Behind that sun-kissed hue. If I reach out to touch her She’ll just run away My Forever and Always Will have to wait another day. — Simone Elkeles

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul. — Horace

I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds. — Richard Armitage

People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them. — Veronica Roth

The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest to all; he does not forsake one in adversity; he gives in season: such are the marks of a worthy friend. — Bhartrhari

Love enmeshes you in your partner's unique set of karmic complications, so make sure you're very interested in his or her problems. Love is a laboratory where you can uncover secrets about yourself that have previously been hidden, so be ravenously curious. — Rob Brezsny

A good friend who points out mistakes is to be respected, as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. — Buddha

Secreted and hidden in the heart of the world and in the heart of the human is the light which can illuminate all life, the future and the past. Shall we not search for it? — Mabel Collins

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