--- title: "28 Secret History Quotes by 25 authors" description: "Browse 28 Secret History quotes by 25 authors. Discover the best Secret History sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5e/ilya-kaminsky-52837_anger_but-in-the-secret-history-of-anger-one-m_1442668.png" --- > [But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilya-kaminsky/but-in-the-secret-history-of-anger-one-man-s-silence-lives-in-the/) [Ilya Kaminsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilya-kaminsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5e/ilya-kaminsky-52837_anger_but-in-the-secret-history-of-anger-one-m_1442668.png) > [Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/was-never-secret-history-but-birds-tell-it-in-the-bowers/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa3/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_bird_was-never-secret-history-but-birds-tell_1632609.png) > [If we could read the secret history of our enemies,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/if-we-could-read-the-secret-history-of-our-enemies/) [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74c/henry-wadsworth-longfellow-284_anger_if-we-could-read-the-secret-history-of-o_558863.jpg) > [“by Nikil Saval in “Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/by-nikil-saval-in-cubed-a-secret-history-of-the-workplace/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/181/anonymous-1_history_by-nikil-saval-in-cubed-a-secret-history_1855084.jpg) > [“Just because it’s the biggest secret in the history of the world doesn’t make it any less true.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gina-damico/just-because-it-s-the-biggest-secret-in-the-history-of-the-world/) [Gina Damico](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gina-damico/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8f/gina-damico-7384_history_just-because-it-s-the-biggest-secret-in_3095806.jpg) > [“this, then, is how we first came across the fearsome secret history of turkey's mannequins.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orhan-pamuk/this-then-is-how-we-first-came-across-the-fearsome-secret-history-of/) [Orhan Pamuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orhan-pamuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82c/orhan-pamuk-500_history_this-then-is-how-we-first-came-across-th_2502230.jpg) > [Each book has a secret history of ways and means.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-ward-beecher/each-book-has-a-secret-history-of-ways-and-means/) [Henry Ward Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-ward-beecher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df0/henry-ward-beecher-175_book_each-book-has-a-secret-history-of-ways-a_2342194.png) > [“We are caught in a secret history, in a forest of symbols.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-merleau-ponty/we-are-caught-in-a-secret-history-in-a-forest-of-symbols/) [Maurice Merleau-Ponty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-merleau-ponty/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c7/maurice-merleau-ponty-2834_history_we-are-caught-in-a-secret-history-in-a-f_2136746.jpg) > [There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/honor-de-balzac/there-are-two-histories-official-history-lying-and-then-secret/) [Honore de Balzac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/honor-de-balzac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea5/honor-de-balzac-197_causes_there-are-two-histories-official-history_2327113.png) > [“Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. -The Secret History, pg. 260”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/time-and-repeated-screenings-have-endowed-the-memory-with-a-menace/) [Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d7/donna-tartt-391_creativity_time-and-repeated-screenings-have-endowe_1668440.jpg) > [If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/if-we-could-read-the-secret-history-of-our-enemies-we-should-find-in/) [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed2/henry-wadsworth-longfellow-284_history_if-we-could-read-the-secret-history-of-o_1172542.jpg) > [“H. W. Longfellow, “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-ury/h-w-longfellow-if-we-could-read-the-secret-history-of-our-enemies-we/) [William Ury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-ury/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de5/william-ury-16849_history_h-w-longfellow-if-we-could-read-the-secr_1655558.jpg) > [I collect old first and second World War artifacts and things. I'm a little secret history nerd. I've been lucky enough to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-irvine/i-collect-old-first-and-second-world-war-artifacts-and-things-i-m-a/) [Jeremy Irvine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-irvine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11e/jeremy-irvine-13173_artifacts_i-collect-old-first-and-second-world-war_128788.jpg) > [“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each person’s life sorrow and suffering enough to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rosen/if-we-could-read-the-secret-history-of-our-enemies-we-should-find-in-2/) [Mark Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rosen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/901/mark-rosen-49119_history_if-we-could-read-the-secret-history-of-o_1179498.jpg) > [I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-murray/i-really-like-all-of-the-characters-in-the-secret-history-by-donna/) [Hannah Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-murray/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/146/hannah-murray-24568_characters_i-really-like-all-of-the-characters-in-t_6272.jpg) > [“About the Author Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and is a graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/about-the-author-donna-tartt-was-born-in-greenwood-mississippi-and-is/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87b/anonymous-1_books_about-the-author-donna-tartt-was-born-in_1899353.jpg) > [I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/i-d-been-assured-at-age-21-or-so-by-a-well-known-editor-who-saw-the/) [Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/811/donna-tartt-391_age_i-d-been-assured-at-age-21-or-so-by-a-we_1642860.jpg) > [If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/if-a-secret-history-of-books-could-be-written-and-the-author-s/) [William Makepeace Thackeray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-makepeace-thackeray/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3e/william-makepeace-thackeray-74_books_if-a-secret-history-of-books-could-be-wr_186416.jpg) > [“Kane pulled a key from a piece of thread around his neck that looked just like the skeleton key Gerald had given…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-a-gray/kane-pulled-a-key-from-a-piece-of-thread-around-his-neck-that-looked/) [C.A. Gray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-a-gray/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ec/c-a-gray-63499_watchers_kane-pulled-a-key-from-a-piece-of-thread_2660235.jpg) > [On a trip to Cabo San Lucas, I was obsessed with Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History.' We were staying at the Esperanza…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ioan-gruffudd/on-a-trip-to-cabo-san-lucas-i-was-obsessed-with-donna-tartt-s-the/) [Ioan Gruffudd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ioan-gruffudd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36d/ioan-gruffudd-13615_back_on-a-trip-to-cabo-san-lucas-i-was-obsess_1003155.png) > [As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/as-every-one-is-pleased-with-imagining-that-he-knows-something-not/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1db/samuel-johnson-50_credit_as-every-one-is-pleased-with-imagining-t_1408590.png) > [“We try to hold on to the things we think will keep us safe and maintain that place we can point to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-hartzler/we-try-to-hold-on-to-the-things-we-think-will-keep-us-safe-and/) [Aaron Hartzler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-hartzler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f34/aaron-hartzler-22321_left-behind_we-try-to-hold-on-to-the-things-we-think_636855.jpg) > [“There are few men who do not look back in secret to some period of their youth, at which a sincere and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-walter-scott/there-are-few-men-who-do-not-look-back-in-secret-to-some-period-of/) [Sir Walter Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-walter-scott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34d/sir-walter-scott-24890_history_there-are-few-men-who-do-not-look-back-i_668452.jpg) > [“Champagne was discovered by a Catholic monk," said Bernard. "Took one swallow and burst out of his cellar yelling, 'I'm drinking stars,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/champagne-was-discovered-by-a-catholic-monk-said-bernard-took-one/) [Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea2/tom-robbins-169_history_champagne-was-discovered-by-a-catholic-m_2719932.jpg) > [“I thought of that lost book and all the memories it held and how it was just one of millions of objects…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenn-haybittle/i-thought-of-that-lost-book-and-all-the-memories-it-held-and-how-it/) [Glenn Haybittle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenn-haybittle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fe/glenn-haybittle-28413_books_i-thought-of-that-lost-book-and-all-the_2980262.jpg) > [“Many people in this room have an Etsy store where they create unique, unreplicable artifacts or useful items to be sold on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherynne-m-valente/many-people-in-this-room-have-an-etsy-store-where-they-create-unique/) [Catherynne M. Valente](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherynne-m-valente/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02d/catherynne-m-valente-375_blog_many-people-in-this-room-have-an-etsy-st_450875.jpg) > [“David Brooks, “Our Founding Yuppie,” Weekly Standard, Oct. 23, 2000, 31. The word “meritocracy” is an argument-starter, and I have employed it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-isaacson/david-brooks-our-founding-yuppie-weekly-standard-oct-23-2000-31-the/) [Walter Isaacson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-isaacson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/646/walter-isaacson-384_american-society_david-brooks-our-founding-yuppie-weekly_2655591.jpg) > [“The dirty secret about history is how much of it is conjecture.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erika-swyler/the-dirty-secret-about-history-is-how-much-of-it-is-conjecture/) [Erika Swyler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erika-swyler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eff/erika-swyler-35070_history_the-dirty-secret-about-history-is-how-mu_986724.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/secret-history/#itemlist", "name": "Secret History Quotes", "numberOfItems": 28, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": 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I realised the moment anything loses its context it becomes a husk.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Glenn Haybittle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenn-haybittle/i-thought-of-that-lost-book-and-all-the-memories-it-held-and-how-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fe/glenn-haybittle-28413_books_i-thought-of-that-lost-book-and-all-the_2980262.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fe/glenn-haybittle-28413_books_i-thought-of-that-lost-book-and-all-the_2980262.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fe/glenn-haybittle-28413_books_i-thought-of-that-lost-book-and-all-the_2980262.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I thought of that lost book and all the memories it held and how it was just one of millions of objects in…” — Glenn Haybittle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 26, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Many people in this room have an Etsy store where they create unique, unreplicable artifacts or useful items to be sold on a small scale, in a common marketplace where their friends meet and barter. I and many of my friends own more than one spinning wheel. We grow our food again. We make pickles and jams on private, individual scales, when many of our mothers forgot those skills if they ever knew them. We come to conventions, we create small communities of support and distributed skills--when one of us needs help, our village steps in. It’s only that our village is no longer physical, but connected by DSL instead of roads. But look at how we organize our tribes--bloggers preside over large estates, kings and queens whose spouses’ virtues are oft-lauded but whose faces are rarely seen. They have moderators to protect them, to be their knights, a nobility of active commenters and big name fans, a peasantry of regular readers, and vandals starting the occasional flame war just to watch the fields burn. Other villages are more commune-like, sharing out resources on forums or aggregate sites, providing wise women to be consulted, rabbis or priests to explain the world, makers and smiths to fashion magical objects. Groups of performers, acrobats and actors and singers of songs are traveling the roads once more, entertaining for a brief evening in a living room or a wheatfield, known by word of mouth and secret signal. Separate from official government, we create our own hierarchies, laws, and mores, as well as our own folklore and secret history. Even my own guilt about having failed as an academic is quite the crisis of filial piety--you see, my mother is a professor. I have not carried on the family trade. We dwell within a system so large and widespread, so disorganized and unconcerned for anyone but its most privileged and luxurious members, that our powerlessness, when we can summon up the courage to actually face it, is staggering. So we do not face it. We tell ourselves we are Achilles when we have much more in common with the cathedral-worker, laboring anonymously so that the next generation can see some incremental progress. We lack, of course, a Great Work to point to and say: my grandmother made that window; I worked upon the door. Though, I would submit that perhaps the Internet, as an object, as an aggregate entity, is the cathedral we build word by word and image by image, window by window and portal by portal, to stand taller for our children, if only by a little, than it does for us. For most of us are Lancelots, not Galahads. We may see the Grail of a good Classical life, but never touch it. That is for our sons, or their daughters, or further off. And if our villages are online, the real world becomes that dark wood on the edge of civilization, a place of danger and experience, of magic and blood, a place to make one’s name or find death by bear. And here, there be monsters.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Catherynne M. Valente" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherynne-m-valente/many-people-in-this-room-have-an-etsy-store-where-they-create-unique/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02d/catherynne-m-valente-375_blog_many-people-in-this-room-have-an-etsy-st_450875.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02d/catherynne-m-valente-375_blog_many-people-in-this-room-have-an-etsy-st_450875.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02d/catherynne-m-valente-375_blog_many-people-in-this-room-have-an-etsy-st_450875.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Many people in this room have an Etsy store where they create unique, unreplicable artifacts or useful items…” — Catherynne M. Valente", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 27, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“David Brooks, “Our Founding Yuppie,” Weekly Standard, Oct. 23, 2000, 31. The word “meritocracy” is an argument-starter, and I have employed it sparingly in this book. It is often used loosely to denote a vision of social mobility based on merit and diligence, like Franklin’s. The word was coined by British social thinker Michael Young (later to become, somewhat ironically, Lord Young of Darlington) in his 1958 book The Rise of the Meritocracy (New York: Viking Press) as a dismissive term to satirize a society that misguidedly created a new elite class based on the “narrow band of values” of IQ and educational credentials. The Harvard philosopher John Rawls, in A Theory of Justice (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971), 106, used it more broadly to mean a “social order [that] follows the principle of careers open to talents.” The best description of the idea is in Nicholas Lemann’s The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999), a history of educational aptitude tests and their effect on American society. In Franklin’s time, Enlightenment thinkers (such as Jefferson in his proposals for creating the University of Virginia) advocated replacing the hereditary aristocracy with a “natural aristocracy,” whose members would be plucked from the masses at an early age based on “virtues and talents” and groomed for leadership. Franklin’s idea was more expansive. He believed in encouraging and providing opportunities for all people to succeed as best they could based on their diligence, hard work, virtue, and talent. As we shall see, his proposals for what became the University of Pennsylvania (in contrast to Jefferson’s for the University of Virginia) were aimed not at filtering a new elite but at encouraging and enriching all “aspiring” young men. Franklin was propounding a more egalitarian and democratic approach than Jefferson by proposing a system that would, as Rawls (p. 107) would later prescribe, assure that “resources for education are not to be allotted solely or necessarily mainly according to their return as estimated in productive trained abilities, but also according to their worth in enriching the personal and social life of citizens.” (Translation: He cared not simply about making society as a whole more productive, but also about making each individual more enriched.)”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Walter Isaacson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-isaacson/david-brooks-our-founding-yuppie-weekly-standard-oct-23-2000-31-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/646/walter-isaacson-384_american-society_david-brooks-our-founding-yuppie-weekly_2655591.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/646/walter-isaacson-384_american-society_david-brooks-our-founding-yuppie-weekly_2655591.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/646/walter-isaacson-384_american-society_david-brooks-our-founding-yuppie-weekly_2655591.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“David Brooks, “Our Founding Yuppie,” Weekly Standard, Oct. 23, 2000, 31. 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