Quotes about secrets

“’What religion and self-interest cannot hide, governments can.’”

Four things cannot be hidden — love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man striding across the open bled.

Science: the creation of dilemmas by the solutions of mysteries.

Secrets give birth to more secrets.

It is no secret that we all have secrets. However, few of them are as veiled as we intend them to be.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

WikiLeaks ... compromised the security that governments are usually concerned about: their security from inspection by their own populations.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.

Anything you don't understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.

It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us — there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.