Uncovering Quotes

• Nothing is hidden that will not be made known; nothing is secret that will not come to light.

  Dan Brown

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Truth

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.1067, Random House

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• I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

  Billy Corgan

  Spiritual, Recovery, Journey

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• Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.

  Mark Epstein

  Real, Desire, Consciousness

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• Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Discovery

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• Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

  Richard Rohr

  Names, Creating, Special

  Richard Rohr (2012). “Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self”, p.22, John Wiley & Sons

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• You will free yourself from emotional drama by uncovering all the lies you believe in. It is a process of unlearning the lies. It is a period of cleansing, and it has nothing to do with the dream of society.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Dream, Drama, Lying

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• Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Artist, Men, Effort

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.94, Modern Library

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• More and more, there were no revelations, but simply the uncovering of truths long known but dimly remembered. Everything had been written long ago. There was nothing truly new in the world, but only the slow, circular march of time that revealed the old things once again.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Long Ago, Old Things, World

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  If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Inspiring, Sympathy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Outre Mer. Driftwood”

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• The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.

  Jagadish Chandra Bose

  Truth, Law, Words Of Wisdom

  "Oriental Philosophy". Book by Ted Gambordella, 2008.

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• The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found.

  Leonard Cohen

  Moon, Two, Perfect

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.226, McClelland & Stewart

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• Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.

  Coleman Barks

  Joy, Treasure, Ruins

  Coleman Barks (2010). “The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Memories

  Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.2, Classics HD

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• One's single greatest strength may be uncovering the hidden talents of another person.

  Tom Rath

  May, Talent, Persons

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• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues? Why would they spread accusations with no basis? Why would they refuse to correct their arguments once they had been shown to be incorrect? And why did the press continue to quote them, year after year, even as their claims were shown, one after another, to be false?

  Naomi Oreskes

  Years, World, Argument

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• Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.

  Rian Johnson

  Writing, Way, Like You

  "Rian Johnson’s Feedback Loop". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2012.

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• Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation to enter where silence once ruled.

  Lewis Hyde

  Mean, Simple, Roots

  Lewis Hyde (2010). “Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art”, p.432, Macmillan

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• Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment

  Aldous Huxley

  Self, Affair, Moments

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• When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things about the film, about myself, and about others. That is what I'm subconsciously looking for when shooting a film: to glimpse the enigmas of life, even if I don't resolve them, but at least to uncover them. Cinema is curiosity in the most intense meaning of the word.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Movie, Writing, Editing

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• We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.

  Charles Kettering

  Science, Kindergarten

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• When you start peeling the onion and uncovering layers and layers of inequity that have been subsidized by government, it makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

  Robert D Bullard

  Government, People, Onions

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Adultery is in most cases a theft in the dark. At such moments almost every woman betrays her husband's innermost secrets; becomes a Delilah who discloses to a stranger, discloses to her lover, the mysteries of her husband's strength or weakness. What seems to me treason is, not that women give themselves, but that a woman is prone, when she does so, to justify herself to herself by uncovering her husband's nakedness, exposing it to the inquisitive and scornful gaze of a stranger.

  Stefan Zweig

  Husband, Dark, Giving

  Stefan Zweig (1955). “Stories and Legends”

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• Follow your nature. The practice is really about uncovering your own pose; we have great respect for our teachers, but unless we can uncover our own pose in the moment, it's not practice - it's mimicry. Rest deeply in Savasana every day. Always enter that pratyahara (withdrawn state) every day. And just enjoy yourself. For many years I mistook discipline as ambition. Now I believe it to be more about consistency. Do get on the mat. Practice and life are not that different.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Inspiring, Teacher, Believe

  Interview with Kelle Walsh, www.yogajournal.com. November 11, 2008.

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• Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us.

  Elizabeth O'Connor

  Important, Tasks, World

  Elizabeth O'Connor (1983). “Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them”

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