Reveal Quotes

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. (Benjamin Disraeli)
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him. View quote
James Allen
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them? View quote
Montesquieu
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves. View quote
Leon Trotsky
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world. View quote
Pierre Corneille
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself. (Epictetus)
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience. View quote
George Will
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together. View quote
Eric Kandel
Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you. View quote
Michael Korda
Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal. View quote
Robert Silverberg
Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. View quote
Joyce Brothers
The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of America's security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe. View quote
Howard Dean
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. View quote
Swami Sivananda
The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen librarya company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of this order - for "rational” is a mode of thought and action which is geared to reduce ignorance, destruction, brutality, and oppression. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. View quote
Ansel Adams
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. View quote
Horace
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal themselves in all their beauty only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss