Julien Green Quotes

Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.

Time discovers truth.

There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.

Nature tells every secret once.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them

I like to open people's eyes.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Light itself is a revelation.

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

In love abides all knowledge. It is mankind's love and interest in things that in time reveals their secret.

Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on

Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew.

The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.

Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.