Secret quotes

Secret

3.6K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

3.6K quotes

Explore further

Browse quotes that often appear alongside secret — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.

Quote collection

Secret quotes (page 3 of 178)

Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.

Rene Magritte Surrealist Artist
Secret

"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well."

Read quote 68 likes
Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
Secret

"The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils."

Read quote 68 likes
Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
Secret

"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. - Buddha No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."

Read quote 68 likes
Slavoj Žižek Philosopher, Cultural Critic
Secret

"Often, the worst way to become prisoner of a system is to have a dream that things may turn better, there is always the possibility of change. Because it is precisely this secret dream that keeps you enslaved to the system."

Read quote 67 likes
Les Paul Musician
Secret

"A guitar is something you can hold and love and it's never going to bug you. But here's the secret about the guitar - it's defiant. It will never let you conquer it. The more you get involved with it, the more you realize how little you know."

Read quote 66 likes
Brother Lawrence Monk, Cook
Secret

"I drove away from my mind everything capable of spoiling the sense of the presence of God.... I just make it my business to persevere in His holy presence... My soul has had an habitual, silent, secret conversation with God."

Read quote 65 likes
Clive James Writer
Secret

"The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB"

Read quote 62 likes
Russell Lynes Photographer, Writer
Secret

"Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal."

Read quote 62 likes
Yves Saint Laurent Fashion Designer
Secret

"Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it."

Read quote 59 likes
George Washington Carver Agricultural Scientist, Inventor
Secret

"To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest relationship with the Maker and Preserver of all things: begin now to study the little things in your own door yard."

Read quote 58 likes
George Orwell Writer, Journalist
Secret

"The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes."

Read quote 57 likes
Secret

"Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are."

Read quote 55 likes