Uncovering Hidden Truths Quotes

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible.

As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.

Finding is reserved for the searchers, we don't find what we need, we find what we search for

Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.

History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of it.

Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.

To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach, with only a forlorn hope that under one of them was the gem we were seeking. Now we have the sieve, the minds, the hands, the time, and, particularly, the dedication to find those gems-no matter in which favorite hiding place the children of distant worlds have placed them.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have gotten more out of life. But I believed I was doing hugely important work. I was elitist about it.

To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.

I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.

I want to do stories that are about the bits of cultural furniture that are sitting there that we're like, 'Oh yeah, that's been there for years! What could possibly be weird about it?' And then we're going to lift that piece of furniture and look at all the bugs scurry away.

I am a mystery to myself.

Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of the world. The biographer at work, indeed, is like the professional burglar, breaking into a house, rifling through certain drawers that he has good reason to think contain the jewelry and money, and triumphantly bearing his loot away.

Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstone of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might have lain forever undiscovered.

I would think Until I found Something I can never find; - Something Lying On the ground, In the bottom Of my mind.