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Secret Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the…
- It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds…
- The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on…
- The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was…
- Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything…
- The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
- There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of…
- Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
More Secret Quotes
- The secret to humor is surprise. — Aristotle
- Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. — Richard Bach
- If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret. — Eve Arnold
- Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret. — Mary Kay Ash
- From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review,… — Isaac Asimov
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange
- We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are… — Julian Assange
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius
- Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. — Marcus Aurelius
- Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. — Diane Ackerman
- If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought… — Teresa of Avila