Hidden Quotes
1704 quotes by 1178 authors
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Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
— Horace
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There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.
— Simonides of Ceos
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I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers
— Audre Lorde
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut…
— Audre Lorde
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Americans are hidden dragons to me.
— Ang Lee
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I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold
— Mahmoud Darwish
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Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
— Anthony Hecht
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All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change)…
— Heraclitus
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A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to…
— Helen Keller
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Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.
— Robert Bresson
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It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want…
— Langston Hughes
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Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show off their darlings,…
— Robertson Davies
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If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything but zero. To…
— Leonhard Euler
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There is nothing so far removed from us to be beyond our reach, or so far hidden that we cannot discover it.
— Rene Descartes
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Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was…
— Rajneesh
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It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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One of the remarkable qualities of the story is that it creates space. We can dwell in a story, walk around, find our own place.…
— Henri Nouwen
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We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the life-tragedy that may be hidden…
— William George Jordan
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