Secrets Quotes
1588 quotes by 1142 authors
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While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the…
— David Hume
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Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty,…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
— Paul Gauguin
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There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try…
— Saint Augustine
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Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God.…
— Teresa of Avila
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You cannot see clearly, because you are so full of expectations, hopes,desires. Your eyes are covered with many layers of dust: you need a deep…
— Rajneesh
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The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine…
— Origen
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The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a…
— Henri Nouwen
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You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.
— Dalai Lama
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And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears…
— Khalil Gibran
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The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.
— Wilder Penfield
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Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by the very movements…
— Mikhail Lomonosov
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God can be sensed when we gaze with trembling hearts at that power of his which controls, guides, and rules everything, when we contemplate his…
— John Cassian
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We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full…
— Kathy Bates
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Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.
— Francois Rabelais
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
— Seneca the Younger
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One hundred years ago, if someone said, 'damn,' people would take notice. Now, you can say almost anything. Secrets are the same way. Once upon…
— Paul Levinson
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The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal has been extremely cooperative in…
— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
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What's the best part of being a mathematician? I'm not a religious man, but it's almost like being in touch with God when you're thinking…
— Paul Halmos
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The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but in the pursuit,…
— Florence Bascom
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