1,170 Quotes About Secrets

Lately I have come to believe that an as yet undiscovered human need and even a property of matter is the desire for revelation. The truth within us has a way of coming out despite all conscious efforts to conceal it. I have heard stories from those in the generation after the war, all speaking of the same struggle to ferret truth from the silence of their parents so that they themselves could begin to live.

You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

Anywhere there is life, there are eyes. And things, too, speak to those who have ears to hear.

Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.

Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest.

Our bodies won't have secrets now.

No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.

We’ll never know the truth of that story and I don’t think either of us wants to really. It was a story that begin and ended in that room. Arthur says everyone takes something to the grave. ..

The Tanakh teaches that, “The diligent will rule, while the lazy will be put to forced labor”. Most Jews work for themselves and hire employees instead of being employees.