Reveals Quotes

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.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

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.

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

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

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

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 old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

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.

Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He's less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true governing philosophy, what he really believes.

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.