#reveal

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#aimed #another #boldly #effecting #ends

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

— e. e. cummings

#believe #curiosity #delight #experience #human

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. ↗

— Horace

#conceals #genius #prosperity #reveals

All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#about #america #american #american writer #ancestry

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#acting #certain #i #i love #love

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#clearly #his #joke #nothing #person

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#communism #largely #like #made #other

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#legislation #one thing #religion #revealed #thing

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#courage #deeply #enchanting #go #into

Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#basically #certain #forms #function #interpretation