Hidden Truth Quotes

• There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.

  Michael C. Hall

  Lying, Secret, Dexter Morgan

  "Fictional character: Dexter Morgan". Dexter (TV Series) Crocodile, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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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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• Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Fake Friends, Fake People, Truth

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• Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne, Some day hidden Truth be known; Some day - some sweet day.

  John L. Bates

  Sweet, Thrones, Truth Is

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• When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Humor, Funny Witty

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• There are three things that cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Truth, Moon, Long

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• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

  Walter Anderson

  Change, Happiness, Success

  Walter Anderson (1988). “The Greatest Risk of All”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.

  Dan Brown

  Book, Touching, Library

  Dan Brown (2009). “The Lost Symbol: (Robert Langdon Book 3)”, p.12, Random House

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• Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as a space full of unpleasant contents, a compound of long-hidden truths, closeted, buried, forgotten. When I went looking, I was playing a desperate game of hide-and-seek, fearful of what I might find, most afraid that I would find nothing.

  Doris Grumbach

  Self, Games, Space

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• If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Memories

  Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.2, Classics HD

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• All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

  Wally Lamb

  Knives, World, Shade

  Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. It has always seemed to me that symbolism should be restored to the structure of world education. The young are no longer invited to seek the hidden truths, dynamic and eternal, locked within the shapes and behavior of living beings.

  Manly Hall

  Book, Symbolism, Touching

  "The Secret Teachings of All Ages". Book by Manly P. Hall, 1928.

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• If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

  Jesse Ventura

  Inspirational, Memories, Truth

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• Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed in this hidden truth the way other men believed in God or love, believed that truth was in fact always hidden, that the apparent, the overt, was invariably a kind of lie.

  Salman Rushdie

  Lying, Men, Water

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• Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth.... A mother's love isn't cliché, it's universal. These things are archetypes. They're the building blocks of myth and legend. They are a big part about what it means to be human.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Girl, Mother, Revenge

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• A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It should be to us a guide post on the mazy paths to hidden truths, and ultimately a reminder of our pleasure in the successful solution.

  David Hilbert

  Successful, Order, Effort

  "Mathematical Problems". Lecture delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris, translated by Maby Winton Newson, mathcs.clarku.edu. 1900.

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• When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.

  George Bernard Shaw

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• When you try to do one step forward to attain knowledge about the hidden truths, then do the same time three steps forward to perfect your character.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Character, Perfect, Trying

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• Our lives improve only when we take chances.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Truth, Honesty, Risk

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• For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

  Lucretius

  And Love, Sound, Phrases

  Lucretius (2008). “On the Nature of the Universe”, p.90, OUP Oxford

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• Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

  Jane Yolen

  Lying, Voice, Stories

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• Enter the streets that you have never been to for the sake of the concealed beauties and the hidden truths!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sake, Streets, Concealed

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• I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.

  Auguste Rodin

  Artist, Doe, Emotion

  Auguste Rodin, Paul Gsell (1983). “Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean a poetic, dramatic expression of a hidden truth; and in placing this emphasis, I do not intend to put into question the scientific validity of psychoanalysis.

  D. M. Thomas

  Beautiful, Truth, Mean

  1981 The White Hotel, author's note.

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