Quotes with reveals

  • One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
  • Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
  • A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
  • Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
  • If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.
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  • Evan Esar A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
    Evan Esar
    American humorist (1899 - 1995)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Buddha A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • George Orwell Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Aristotle Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • E. M. Cioran A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Leo Tolstoy A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Horace Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • V.S. Naipaul An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
    The Writer and the World (2012) 225
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Jean-Luc Godard Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
    Jean-Luc Godard
    French film director (1930 - 2022)
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  • Horace As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Ian Mcewan By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State's crime when it sets out to crush that individuality.
    Ian Mcewan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • William Baziotes Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.
    William Baziotes
     
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  • Jessamyn West Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
    Jessamyn West
    American author of short stories and novels (1902 - 1984)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Albert Einstein I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.
    Victor J. Stenger, Has Science Found God?
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Alan Cohen If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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