Hidden Things Quotes

• I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

  Will Oldham

  Ideas, People, Car

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• Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

  Confucius

  Motivational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

  Marie de France

  Loyalty, Men, Ends

  Marie de France (2014). “French Medieval Romances from the Lais of Marie de France”, p.205, The Floating Press

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• The very discovery of these hidden things is in itself a purifying experience! The soul needs to discover what is inside. The self nature needs to see what it really is, and what it is like-right to the very bottom.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Powerful, Discovery, Self

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• I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They’re things that the audience is not conscious of, but that accumulate.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Conscious, Hundred, Made

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• Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition. Think how food undergoes such changes to produce health and strength. See the power of these hidden things which, like the wind cannot been seen, but its effects can be.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Thinking, Wind

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• There can be...no power...to disclose...the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perforce hold them until the day when all hidden things be revealed.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Secret, May

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• Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Pain, Greatness, Compassion

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.71, Penguin

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• this is what I know about courage: You don't have to think about courage to have it. You don't have to feel courageous to be courageous. You don't sit down and say you're going to be courageous. At the moment of action, you don't see it as a courageous act. Courage is the most hidden thing from your eye or mind until after it's done. There's some inner something that tells you what's right. You know you have to do it to survive as a human being. You have no choice.

  Unita Blackwell

  Courage, Eye, Thinking

  Unita Blackwell, JoAnne Prichard Morris (2006). “Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom”, Crown

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• When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined by Him, finally become spiritual themselves, and their grace is sent forth to others. From this comes knowledge of the future, understanding of mysteries, apprehension of hidden things, distribution of wonderful gifts, heavenly citizenship, a place in the choir of angels, endless joy in the presence of God, becoming like God, and, the highest of all desires, becoming God.

  Saint Basil

  Spiritual, Fall, Angel

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• Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way we live, the things we'd like to have for everyone whether it's health or education.

  Bill Gates

  Numbers, Innovation, Way

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I love hidden things. When you buy something with quality, you like the inside to be as beautiful as the outside. Nobody's going to see it, but you know it's there.

  Mindy Grossman

  Beautiful, Quality, Knows

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• With a short lens I can reveal the hidden things near at hand, with a long lens the hidden things far away. The telephoto lens provides a new visual sensation for people: it widens their horizons. And, conversely, the things under our nose invariably look good when blown up really big.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Hands, Long

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• Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering about themselves, loners are curious, vigilant, full of surprises. They do not cling. Separate wherever they go, awake or asleep, they shimmer with the iridescence of hidden things seldom seen.

  Anneli Rufus

  Being Alone, Solitude, Loner

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• Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about. Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

  Rembrandt

  Knowledge, Practice, Trying

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