There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute. — Confucius
Jesus said, Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you. For there is nothing hidden that shall not become manifest. — Thomas the Apostle
There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious. — Wei Wu Wei
The donkey is hiding but his ears are sticking out in plain sight. — Moroccan Proverbs
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. — Madeleine L'Engle
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all. — Sophocles
The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our description, our consciousness of where we are. — Starhawk
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. — Isaac Asimov
Secrets aren't secret. They're just hidden treasures, waiting to be exploited. — Stephen White
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any. — Duke of Wellington
VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there — Nikki Giovanni
Short Plain Sight Quotes
Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible. — Rene Magritte
It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. — Gerard Way
Paradoxical, things that seem obvious, broad consensus — Howard Marks
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. — Roald Dahl
Look for what you notice but no one else sees. — Rick Rubin
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all. — Sophocles
What is written on the brow will inevitably be seen by the eye. — Egyptian Proverbs
The simplest things are the most startling. — American Proverbs
Appearances are often deceiving. — Aesop
Appearances are deceptive. — Aesop
Plain Sight Image Quotes
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Hiding In Plain Sight Quotes
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
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
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
Never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight. — Stephenie Meyer
All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site. — Robin Sloan
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
Don't lose sight of ordinary people with extraordinary hearts.
The state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight. — Mike Lofgren
Young people are growing in plain sight, there is no place for them to hide, no cocoon. It’s hard — Rachel Vail
When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight. — Marianne Williamson
Failure is where success likes to hide in plain sight. — Scott Adams
I know nothing with any certainty. But the sight of the stars make me dream.
There's a wide range of sales ability: there are many gradations between novices, experts, and masters. There are even sales grandmasters. If you don't know any grandmasters, it's not because you haven't encountered them, but rather because their art is hidden in plain sight. — Peter Thiel
The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them. — L. Neil Smith
What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color. — Annie Dillard
The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight. — Michael Lind
We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people, events, and things of the day - to which we as sophisticated children have long since become oblivious. What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color. — Annie Dillard
I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view. — Harry Markopolos
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight? — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual. — Ignatius of Loyola
What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight. — Charles Baxter
I loved being around live rocking music, but I never knew what to do with myself socially at a show or club. I discovered that the dance floor was the perfect place to hide in plain sight. — Larry Howes
Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid of all respectable people,the most insupportable folk God has created. — Paul Gauguin
We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth; it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain is the face of death. Yet snow is but the mask of the life-giving rain; it, too, is the friend of man, the tender, sculpturesque, immaculate, warming, fertilizing snow. — John Burroughs
Ever since I was a about seven or eight; I think it was seven. My brother said "I want to start acting," and me and my sister just said, "Oh we'll try it, we'll see." It was just one of those things - we were just like, "Oh, we'll see what happens." So we ended up - all my siblings and me - we ended up just trying it, and I got that one role on In Plain Sight and then we just decided to keep going and see what happens. And then: Hunger Games. — Willow Shields
The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight. — Alex Gibney
Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the mane ofthe grass; the diluted reflection of the sky together with the fleeting sight of the reeds; the Negresses fill their dripping gourds and their red clay containers; the song of the washerwomen; the gorged fields the tall crops ripening. — Jacques Roumain
As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper Yellowstone and the like afford the greatest natural shows, I am not so sure but the prairies and plains, while less stunning at first sight, last longer, fill the esthetic sense fuller, precede all the rest, and make North America's characteristic landscape. — Walt Whitman
And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the sight's being mislead by the colors, and every sort of confusion of this kind is plainly in our soul. And, then, it is because they take advantage of this affection in our nature that shadow painting, and puppeteering, and many other tricks of the kind fall nothing short of wizardry. — Socrates
If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour's plain command to go? — Hudson Taylor
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
She was--I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is--one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them, become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through. — Aidan Chambers
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
But even more so, it reminded me that this was all really happening. Stanford. The end of the summer. The beginning of my real life. It was no longer just creeping up, peeking over the horizon, but instead lingering in plain sight. — Sarah Dessen
True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. — Alexander Pope
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