secrets

1.

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

- Breton, Andre

2.

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.

- Dryden, John

3.

To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.

4.

If you have to keep something secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!

- David Nicholls

5.

From man or angel the great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not divulge his secrets to be scanned by them who ought rather admire; or if they list to try conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens left to their disputes, perhaps to move his laughter at their quaint opinions wide hereafter, when they come to model heaven calculate the stars, how they will wield the mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive to save appearances, how gird the sphere with centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, and epicycle, orb in orb.

- Milton, John

6.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

- Phelps, William Lyon

7.

It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

8.

Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

9.

There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There will be no puzzles anymore. To me it'd be really, really tragic because I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how its emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why.

- Jane Goodall

10.

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

- E. M. Forster

11.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

- Keller, Helen

12.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

- Johnson, Samuel

13.

Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.

- Zacharia

14.

Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

- Twain, Mark

15.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

- Auden, W. H.

16.

Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a'friendship.'

- Margaret Cho

17.

How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.

- Proverb, Portuguese

19.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

- George Washington Carver

20.

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

- Disney, Walt