Hidden Value Quotes

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.

It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.

Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath.

The things that are the most valuable are often the ones you don't even know exist. -- Xavier, The Gatekeeper

Medicine, likewise, because it deals with things, has always been for our serener circles a Cinderella, blooming maid as happily as she has grown nevertheless.

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.

I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what I labeled worthless was, all the time, filled with the kind of beauty that directly nourishes my soul... Now I think that the vast majority of us "normal" people spend our lives trashing our treasures and treasuring our trash. We bustle around trying to create the impression that we are hip, imperturbable, omniscient, in perfect control, when in fact we are awkward and scared and bewildered.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Open your eyes, I'm a BLESSING in disguise

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue.

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

We cannot judge fully of men's works by what we see, or what is said and thought of them; for man is prone to depreciate that which is really important, and to exact and extol what is trivial and of little worth. Many things which are hidden and unrecognized of human wisdom are nevertheless valuable and vitally important.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."

For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know.

And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.

Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches.

All that is gold does not glitter.