Hidden Wisdom Quotes

We know more than we can tell.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!

The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

Sometimes you need the things you didn't know you needed to know.

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind. Despotism has robbed them of their liberty. How can the weak obtain protection? Only by union; but this is rare. Nothing can bring this about but hidden societies. Hidden schools of wisdom are the means which will one day free men from their bonds. These have in all ages been the archives of nature, and the rights of men; and by them shall human nature be raised from her fallen state. Princes and nations shall vanish from the earth. The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time

Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.

You will never be as smart as your subconscious.

I like discovering stories where I'm laughing and I'm learning. It's like, 'How was I never taught that in school?'

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

The mystery of the soul is like that of a closed door. When you open it, you see something which was not there before.

One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to wish to teach the whole truth about the Gods to all produces contempt in the foolish, because they cannot understand, and lack of zeal in the good, whereas to conceal the truth by myths prevents the contempt of the foolish, and compels the good to practice philosophy.

Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

...the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means ‘hidden’ or ‘obscured.’ In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdoctrinal had to be kept hidden or ‘occult,’ and because the church felt threatened by this, they redefined anything ‘occult’ as evil, and the prejudice survived.

Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.

The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.

Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

God, like all highest things, Hides light in shade, And in the night his visitings To sleep and dreams are clearliest made.

Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all that knowledge had now come in useful.