Reveals Quotes

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.

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.

And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.

The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.

The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.

I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.