Top 115 Reveals Quotes

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that’s what gets my adrenaline going.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

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

I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.

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

‘The Slap‘ is not like anything else. It’s an incredibly well-written novel that has been turned into a great and intriguing series that reveals both less and more about each character than you learn in the book. It’s a novel that has been given a second chance to live.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently. Yet countless socializing forces, from Aunt Clara to the latest perfume ad, reinforce beliefs like ‘If I were pretty enough, I would be loved.’

I’m troubled by how much I like Rowan Williams. I think it reveals character flaws in myself that I’d rather not think about. The softly spoken soon-to-be-former Archbishop of Canterbury is my secret crush, my weird pash, and my guilty pleasure.

The ‘SAMS’ study, titled ‘A New Normal: Ongoing Chemical Weapons Attacks in Syria‘, reveals that the Assad regime merely switched from sarin gas to chlorine gas in its bombardment of civilians areas.

Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It’s one of the reasons we have campaigns.

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.

It’s important that the way you dress tells a story and reveals something about you and your philosophy.

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

Time’s Up is finally, it would seem, activism with some teeth. It isn’t perfect, however. One of the first acts of protest – urging celebrities to wear black to awards shows – reveals a worrisome willingness to keep lunging toward those lazy, meaningless and empty gestures that cheapen the seriousness of an issue.

The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

Accidents, try to change them – it’s impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Surely the wake left behind by mankind‘s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

‘In the Making’ reveals the truth about ‘being in the limelight‘ as a young celebrity.

A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.

Every game reveals exactly where you are. We should have a good understanding after every game why we either won or lost that game.

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

On first listening, Joni Mitchell‘s ‘Court And Spark,’ the first truly great pop album of 1974, sounds surprisingly light; by the third or fourth listening, it reveals its underlying tensions.

For a rapper as well-known as Drake, there remains an essential element of mystery about him. For one so open, there’s a distance, and he prefers it that way. But then there’s something beneath the exterior that reveals itself with urgency in conversation: Drake’s raw ambition.

Picking up a tell – a hint that a player unknowingly gives that reveals the strength of his hand – often means the difference between winning and losing a big pot.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

We Are Bulletproof: The Eternal‘ demonstrates that we will keep going despite the difficulties. It reveals our ego.

I think ‘Mudbound’ reveals the interconnectiveness of our stories. You can’t separate out threads of history and race as economic construct. ‘Mudbound’ makes it very plain. Race is about commerce; it’s not an actual thing. It’s a fiction that was created to basically divide resources unequally.

I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opinion, deserve a second chance. It is a rewarding job for me, but one that also reveals many of the faults in the English game.

Action is only really compelling when it reveals character – character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.

I’m not that nice – it’s one of those things that reveals itself over time. You could talk to people who know me well; they could give you a laundry list. Except they probably wouldn’t because they’re petrified.

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.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

For me, when I ‘discover’ a story, there is a feeling of buoyancy and clarity, perhaps similar to early morning out on a prairie highway, when darkness lifts and reveals the outline of farmhouses and copses of trees in the distance.

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

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

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

Eviction reveals people’s vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.

Harvey Weinstein reveals how the most powerful men in this country have tendrils in to every kind of institution.

Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too – especially if they’re poor and indigenous.

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

My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can’t rely on the private sector. They don’t want to touch them; they don’t want to hire them.

Despite popular belief, Bitcoin is a bad medium of exchange for people that value financial privacy because of the transparent ledger that reveals an address, timestamp, and amount for every transaction on the network.

Technology is far more than a method, it is a world in itself. As a method, it is superior in almost every respect. But only where it is left to itself, as in gigantic structures of engineering, there technology reveals its true nature.

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals.

Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits – metaphors and paradoxes – that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations – unless a form can be found to contain them.

It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.

Hemingway‘s short story ‘Hills Like White Elephants‘ is a classic of its kind. It illustrates Hemingway’s ‘iceberg theory,’ which requires that a story find its effectiveness by hiding more than it reveals.

I am a huge fan of Adrian Piper: how she works, how she reveals her process in the work, how she writes about it.

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven‘t gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.

At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.

The book, ‘Citizen,’ begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact.

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

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.

An evening dress that reveals a woman‘s ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.

We are used to thinking of Amazon myths in terms of violence against uppity women, but the ancient evidence also reveals a vision of gender equality.

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

I noticed that ‘Lost’ had sort of worn out our welcome; because of ‘Lost,’ audiences were no longer being patient with slow reveals: they wanted answers quickly, and they wanted story to develop much faster.

There’s something exciting about weekly strips in that you’re following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it’s a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.

Embryology reveals surprising similarities between early embryos of seemingly quite different animals. And it also shows that some structures that may look very different later on have fundamental similarities in the way they form.

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.

If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature.

Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.

When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn’t been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn’t want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.

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

The SCMP, in short, reveals the renewed spirit of Hong Kong driven by my government – connect and excel – and in its passionate commitment to the community.

Since 1963, the University of Delaware‘s Disaster Research Center has conducted nearly 700 field studies on floods and earthquakes, and on-site research reveals the same results every time: the vast majority of people stay calm and help each other.

Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt – people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.

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.

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

Your income reflects your self-identity. Your impact reveals your personal story.

Our experience shows – and survey after survey reveals – institutions are run better, communities are healthier when women are involved in solving the challenges of our society. Equal representation does not just lead to good democracy: it is democracy.

Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

My dialogue probably reveals the paranoia of the stand-up: if you’re not quick and interesting, they will be gone.

Grief reveals itself in the most mundane activities, like eating. It’s never when you’re looking at old pictures.

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.

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.

The American public should know that the Senate report actually reveals that 82% of detainees subjected to enhanced interrogation did, in fact, produce intelligence that saved American lives.

The Gospel of Thomas claims to be the secret sayings of Jesus. There are 114 of them, so it says many things, but the central message is that Jesus is the one who reveals the divine light that brought the universe into being, and that you and I also reveal that light.

The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood‘s box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.

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 cross reveals that we’re called to a deeper, fuller experience of what it means to be alive and open to new dimensions of life which our religious boundaries – creeds, atonement theologies – have kept us from experiencing.

‘Dreams From My Father‘ reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they’re dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

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.

The discovery of the habit loop is important because it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

‘Tell to Win’ reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral advocates of the tellers’ goals.

This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you’re harboring them yourself.

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

I think it’s always interesting to learn what the seemingly spontaneous one-nighter actually reveals about a character.

Integrity reveals beauty.

The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats.

Stocks change. Industries change. But the underlying reasons certain stocks are good investments remain the same. Only the fullness of time reveals which are the most sound.

The clarification of equilibrium through plastic art is of great importance for humanity. It reveals that although human life in time is doomed to disequilibrium, notwithstanding this, it is based on equilibrium. It demonstrates that equilibrium can become more and more living in us.

I like examining the ordinary, and by doing so, one hopefully reveals the extraordinary nature within.

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

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

Drama is more focused, and it reveals itself to you, whereas comedy is just right there when you first read it.

Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I’ve tried to work that in – an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.

Watching somebody sing reveals a lot about character.

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don’t know what we’re seeing, we overreact.

As a person, I’m not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

The Defense Department‘s plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.