Quotes About Revelation

I can't imagine why knowledge, truth and love should be so much of a secret

Shock doesn't hit all at once. I have learned.

You discover something so awful, so life-changing, the only way you can cope is to jump straight into denial.

Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.

Because you made me feel, Flick. Everyone is so predictable, but you? You showed up and rocked my world.

...and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me...

I stumbled upon something and someone so magnificent I was truly blind to it.

As he stood in the darkness, his eyes glistened and that's when I knew my light found its traction.

The Koran, the revealed word of God, was the closest thing to a miracle in Mohammed's life. He had not been a poet; he had no gift of words. Yet the verses of the Koran, as he received them and recited them to the faithful, were better than any verses which the professional poets of the tribes could produce. This, to the Arabs, was a miracle. To them the gift of words was the greatest gift, the poet was all-powerful.

Consider a turkey that is fed every day. Every single feeding will firm up the bird's belief that it is the general rule of life to be fed every day by friendly members of the human race "looking out for its best interests," as a politician would say. On the afternoon of the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, something unexpected will happen to the turkey. It will incur a revision of belief.*

A good book gets better on the second reading. A great book on the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth reading.

A turkey is fed for a thousand days by a butcher; every day confirms to its staff of analysts that butchers love turkeys "with increased statistical confidence.

People feel deep anxiety finding out that someone they thought was stupid is actually more intelligent than they are.

Actually, wouldn't it be better if the length of movies were kept a secret?

people often think that it will surely be the next batch of news that will really make a difference to their understanding of things.)

the truth came out eventually, and his mission ended up paying off, with some delay.

The mechanism is a probabilistic method called conditional information: Unless the source of the statement has extremely high qualifications, the statement will be more revealing of the author than the information intended by him.

And as a risk taker, only time counts—for I could fool my accountant with steady earnings with a lot of hidden risk, but time will eventually reveal them.

Tengo la esperanza de que algún día la ciencia y quienes toman las decisiones redescubran lo que los antiguos siempre supieron, concretamente que la moneda de mayor valor es el respeto.

Likewise, seemingly uninteresting results that go unnoticed, can, years later turn out to be breakthroughs.

exposed to a major blowup without being aware of it

the statement will be more revealing of the author than the information intended by him.

And then his throat closed. For it was there. He had wanted it to be there, but now that he saw it, he was overcome with sadness.

He bent and put his lips to the spurt, drinking noiselessly, and then he sat up again and drew his shirt sleeve across his mouth. As he did this, he turned his face in her direction—and their eyes met. For a long moment they looked at each other in silence, the boy with his arm still raised to his mouth. Neither of them moved. At last his arm fell to his side. "You may as well come out," he said, with a frown.