Quotes on Secret

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

We're all working together; that's the secret.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."

Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.

The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives.

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

The king shall singly deliberate over secret matters; for ministers have their own ministers, and these latter some of their own; this kind of successive line of ministers tends to the disclosure of counsels.

Nature tells every secret once.

In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.

Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.