Quotes of Revelation - somelinesforyou

“ The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny…'. ”

- Isaac Asimov

“ Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ”

- Will Durant

“ When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best — that is inspiration. ”

- Robert Bresson

“ Eureka! I've got it. ”

- Archimedes

“ He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. ”

- Samuel Smiles

“ It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. ”

- Isaac Newton

“ Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself. ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth — that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth — that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. ”

- H.L. Mencken

“ The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth — that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usu. ”

- H.L. Mencken

“ An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. ”

- William James

“ Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation. ”

- Eileen Caddy

“ Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. ”

- Salvador Dali

“ Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. ”

- Toni Morrison

“ Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem. ”

- Elizabeth Bowen

“ Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. ”

- Denis Diderot

“ Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. ”

- Robert Fitzgerald

“ Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside — from others. We do not accept it willingly. ”

- Simone De Beauvoir

“ The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order … the continuous thread of revelation. ”

- Eudora Welty

“ The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. ”

- Unknown

“ The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The terrible fluidity of self-revelation. ”

- Henry James

“ They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature. ”

- George P. Baker

“ I gotta tell you, it's hard for some of us to make a living these days. The days when my ancestors could serve as an archery blind, give revelations to prophets, and shelter elves are past. ”

- Fred Bush

“ Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing. ”

- Joseph Butler
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