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Quotes About Self-revelation

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.
~ Josef Albers
Sometimes I think it's the responsibility of the artist to reveal a little more of themselves.
~ Mickalene Thomas
Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.
~ Tori Amos
People knew who Karishma Tanna is always, but through 'Bigg Boss,' they know me very well - what kind of a personality I have, what do I do in the morning and what do I do in the evening, what type of clothes I wear, how do I do my hair, how do I do make-up.
~ Karishma Tanna
These essays were written at various times over a thirty-year period, to express special discoveries, to serve special needs. But they all echo the same truths of explosive self-revelation and continous astonishment at what your deep well contains if you just haul off and shout down it.
~ Ray Bradbury
But they all echo the same truths of explosive self-revelation and continuous astonishment at what your deep well contains if you just haul off and shout down it.
~ Ray Bradbury
Curiosity being one of the forms of self-revelation, a systematically incurious person remains always partly mysterious.
~ Joseph Conrad
A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Self-revelation without analysis or understanding becomes merely an embarrassment to both reader and writer.
~ Judith Barrington
And yet in the end did we ever really give each other completely to the other? Do either of us even know how to really share ourselves? Imagine the house is on fire and I reach to save one thing - what is it? Do you know? Imagine that I am drowning and I reach within myself to save that one memory which is me - what is it? Do you know? What things would either of us reach for? Neither of us know. After all these years we just wouldn't know.
~ Douglas Coupland
He reveals and observes Himself on the mirror of the name Allah, yet at the same time He declares: "Verily, Allah (in terms of His Absolute Essence) is Ghani from (being conditioned and limited by) the worlds (individualized and materialized compositions of His Names)." (Quran 29:06) ALLAH is Pre-eternal and Post-eternal (Baqi).
~ Ahmed Hulusi
There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself. [Pg.189]
~ Akira Kurosawa
Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.
~ Akira Kurosawa
I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.
~ Peyton Manning
I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.
~ Sharon Gless
The only excuse a man has for writing is that he express himself, that he reveal to others the kind of world reflected in the mirror of his soul; his only excuse is that he be original.
~ Remy de Gourmont
I told her, "I'm Wayne, and this is—
~ Karin Slaughter
A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.
~ Loren Eiseley
Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.
~ Russell Banks, Trailerpark
I fancy you may tell the truth about yourself. But all of it? The black truth, which we all know ourselves in our heats, or only the whity-brown truth of the pericardium, or the nice, whitened truth of the shirtfront? Even you [Mark Twain] won't tell the black heart's-truth. The man who could do it would be famed to the last day the sun shown upon.
~ William Dean Howells
voglio che tu sappia tutto di me, voglio che tu mi conosca nella mia nudità, nei miei piccoli calcoli e nelle mie ansie meschine, nella mia stupidità, nelle mie vergogne e nella mia infamia.
~ David Grossman
When you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of myself here - but, uh, no, I'm not doing anything.
~ Will Ferrell