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Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Ambrose Bierce

The image of NSA has been muddied considerably by this revelation.

Matthew Aid

I now realize how closely connected they are to my success as Wimbledon's winner in 1976-1980 and this revelation has caused me to reconsider my earlier intention to sell them.

Bjorn Borg

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal, the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is usually great.

Abe Fortas

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Herman Hesse

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

Philip Glass

The courage of exploring myself was nothing compared to the courage of actually doing the EMT course, ... As a writer, the concept of self-revelation is not new. The problem was getting through the depression and anxiety and doing something unheard of for me: becoming an EMT. Writing about self-revelation is gravy.

Michael Stern

The overall number where there is actually a problem is still low, but more importantly, you've got, once again, a revelation that the problem is a little wider than first thought. What people had been hoping to see is some end to this.

Keay Nakae

I thought, Wow!, ... Here's a historical revelation that will cause the history books to be rewritten. No one's ever heard of a U.S. nuclear test in the Sudan in 1962.

Steven Aftergood

The groups want certain questions asked of Roberts to lay a predicate for future nominees. Unless there's a revelation we can't fathom, this will be the meat of the hearings.

Marshall Wittmann

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

Boris Pasternak

For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings.

Otto Frank

Have you ever told a lie? Then you are a liar. How many murders do you have to commit to be a murderer? Just one. If you have told even one lie, that makes you a liar. The Bible warns that all liars will have their part in the Lake of Fire (Revelation 21:8). You may not think deceitfulness is a serious sin, but God does.

Kirk Cameron

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.

Albert Barnes

In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.

Sun Myung Moon

Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit.

Robert Barclay

Landry was a revelation in the paint last year, able to use bulk and a bit of explosiveness to make up the 2-3 inches he gives away every night in the Big Ten.

Jonathan Watters

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

Vladimir Nabokov

The more we hear about John Roberts' record, the more disturbed we become. That he counseled President Reagan against using sound science to reassure a fearful nation is a concerning revelation.

Joe Solmonese

The idea that beauty is revolutionary is a revelation to me... I've discovered the part of my brain that can't decode anything, can't add, can't work from verbalized concepts, but that does make melodies with pitch and rhythm... beauty is enough.

Beth Anderson

REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

Ambrose Bierce

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

William James

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

Margaret Halsey

I believe in the process, that minds that are closed can be opened. In the scope of history, the conversation continues to unfold, God's revelation is ongoing.

Paul Riofski

I suppose the revelation with us is we're going to be a side that throws the ball around a little bit and chances our hand. John [Mitchell] said he's not going to come down hard on us if we make mistakes trying things. So he's given us a bit of a free rein to play expansive football.

Matt Henjak

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

Robert Fitzgerald

Manny has been a revelation.

Michael Farber

The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

Harold Rosenberg

At the very least it demonstrates a lack of communication between trainer and foreman and the revelation that Vasil administered bicarb routinely to night feeds and morning feeds is extra gross negligence amounting to recklessness.

Russell Lewis

I had never even known that people made music like that. It was quite a revelation.

J. Loren Wince

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Max Ernst

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.

Sun Myung Moon

As for 119, there are a few twists and turns – and one revelation in particular that I think readers won't be expecting.

Allan Heinberg

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

Just in a nanosecond, you'd know, a ream of material has been deposited into your heart. ... We call it revelation. God revealed that to you. When he said, 'Build big people, not a big church,' that is just right.

Wayne Cordeiro

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

Margot Fonteyn

Every now and then there will be little glimmers of revelation about an old family legend that gets confirmed, or you find out the truth.

Adam Davis

Revelation is the most important aspect of the process. That's the point where consciousness can change.

Joey Skaggs

The judges felt that, in a field of hugely important investigations, the revelation of systematic domestic spying by the government was the most important. They wanted to send a message that this kind of reporting is essential to our democracy.

Alex Jones

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

It is a bizarre and shocking revelation that the prime minister claims to have been guided by the supernatural in this matter, especially given the particular religious sensitivities in the Middle East.

Evan Harris

There is not any thing, which has contributed so much to delude mankind in religious matters, as mistaken apprehensions concerning supernatural inspiration or revelation; not considering that all true religion originates from reason, and can not othe.

Ethan Allen

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

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

Edward O. Wilson