Best Revealing Wisdom
301 Revealing quotes by 263 unique authors
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Nothing is more revealing than movement.
— Martha Graham
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
— Rachel Cusk
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We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in…
— Walt Disney
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Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into…
— David Duchovny
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
— E. M. Forster
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What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the…
— Mindy Kaling
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Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.
— Annie Leibovitz
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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's…
— James Russell Lowell
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I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they…
— Alan Moore
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Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real…
— Richard Rohr
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Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.
— Jerry Saltz
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I've traveled around the world, and what's so revealing is that, despite the differences in culture, politics, language, how people dress, there is a universal…
— Howard Schultz
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Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White…
— Helen Thomas
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he…
— James Thurber
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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…
— Lily Tomlin
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Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the…
— Diana Vreeland
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Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and…
— George Edward Woodberry
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I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to turn the pages.…
— Ashwin Sanghi
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I would give up the unessential; I would give up my money, I would give up my life for my children; but I wouldnt give…
— Kate Chopin
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Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
— Paulo Coelho
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We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal…
— Dave Eggers
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Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.
— Harold S. Kushner
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I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing…
— Edmund Burke
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Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they…
— Andy Rooney
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The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the…
— Carlos Fuentes
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