(238 quotes found)
“What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring”
Lily Tomlin
“Nothing is more revealing than movement.”
Martha Graham
“Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity”
David Hume
“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.”
W. Eugene Smith
“If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident”
Charles de Montesquieu
“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”
Cesare Pavese
“Men's maxims reveal their characters.”
Vauvenargues Marquis de
“Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it”
“The stammerer is ambivalent about communicating with others-he desperately wants to communicate, but is afraid of revealing himself.”
Ted Morgan
“Morals, however, remain invaluable: they reveal, at least for those who know, the most valuable realities of cultures which did not know enough to "understand" themselves. At all times they have wanted to "improve" men: this above all was called morality.”
Friedrich Nietzsche