The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above, and some springing from beneath; the one informed by the light of nature, the other inspired by divine revelation.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  The Advancement of Learning, bk.2, ch.5, section1.

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Peter1:13.

That hallowed piece of earth, that land of light and revelation, is the home to the memories and dreams of Jews, Muslims and Christians throughout the world.

-Clinton, Bill (William)
  On the signing of Palestinian^Israeli peace accord at the White House,13 Sep.

I was told when a young man that the two occupational hazards of the Palace of Varieties were alcohol and adultery. The hurroosh that follows the intermittent revelation of the sexual goings-on of an unlucky MP has convinced me that the only safe pleasure for a parliamentarian is a bag of boiled sweets.

-Critchley, SirJulian Michael Gordon
  In The Listener,10  Jun.

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  The Conduct of Life,'Fate'.

The Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of theThames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pupils might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctityand truth of the revelation of Mahomet.

-Gibbon, Edward
^88  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.52.

Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are only its conditions† The essence of music is revelation.

-Heine, Heinrich
  Letters on the French Stage.

   Those who have the habit of revelation lose the habit of thought.

-Skelton, Robin
A Devious Dictionary.

Afew weeksago Ihad a revelation and told my secretary that I could give him a synthesis of forty-six years of living with economic policy. It is: 'Economic policy is random with respect to the performance of the American economy, but, thank God, there isn't much of it.'

-Stein, Herbert
  Washington Bedtime Stories.

   The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order, a timetable not necessarilyöperhaps not possiblyöchronological† It isthe continuousthread of revelation.

-Welty, Eudora
  OneWriter's Beginnings, II.'Learning to See'.

The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.

-Whitehead, Alfred North
  Adventures of Ideas.

The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of his agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent and uncertain† But there can be no doubt as to the elements in the record that have evoked the best in human nature. The Mother, the Child and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self- forgetful, with his message of peace, love and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.

-Whitehead, Alfred North
 Adventures of Ideas.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

-Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier
  Cat on a HotTin Roof, stage direction.