The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world … is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.
—Immanuel Kant
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
—Socrates
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
—Sun Tzu
The secret to happiness, you see, is not in gaining more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
—Socrates
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
—George Orwell
I will try to retire at nine or half-past, and every evening give half and hour, or an hour, to secret exercises, endeavouring to raise my mind more, and that it may be more warmed with heavenly fire.
—William Wilberforce
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
—Aldous Huxley
Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty.
Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life.
Here the secret lies.
Here lies the entire story.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty.
Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life.
Here the secret lies.
Here lies the entire story.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
—Henry Ford
The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.
—Sun Tzu
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
—Immanuel Kant
The secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
—Charles Dickens
If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner.. If I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.
—Henry Ford
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his finger-tips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
—Sigmund Freud
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
—Plato
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
—Socrates
The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world … is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.
—Immanuel Kant
The secret to humor is surprise.
—Aristotle
If he (the truly gracious soul) and his God have not met in secret and had some communion in the morning, he sensibly finds it in the deadness and unprofitableness of his heart and life all the day after.
—John Flavel
The conscience men make of secret as well as of public duties will tell them what their hearts and graces are, true or false.
—John Flavel
A truly gracious soul cannot long subsist without secret prayer. It is true – there is not always an equal freedom and delight, a like enlargement and comfort in those retirements, but yet he cannot be without them.
—John Flavel
One can pray while walking the street, or riding in the car, and one should lift the heart to God right in the busiest moments of life, but we need set set times of prayer, times when we go alone with God, shut the door and talk to our Father in the secret place.
—R. A. Torrey
It is not enough that we have our times of secret prayer to God alone with Him, we also need to have fellowship with others in prayer.
—R. A. Torrey
Many attempt to be disciples of Jesus and not let the world know it. To be a secret disciple means to be no disciple at all. If one really has received Christ he cannot keep it to himself.
—R. A. Torrey
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
—Sigmund Freud
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
—Voltaire
Reproof should be in season, in secret, and in love.
—John Newton