A Quote by Horace

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Adversity Genius Prosperity Reveals

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Horace
Roman - Poet
65 BC - 8 BC

Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

Horace

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

Horace

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Horace

So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance.

Francis Quarles

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

Ashwin Sanghi

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

Josh Billings

Night conceals a world but reveals a universe.

Robert Browning

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

Livy

Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.

Josef von Sternberg

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Mark Twain

The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign

Heraclitus

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

Cato the Younger

We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.

William Penn

The best minds come from the most unexpected faces and places. There is no image for intelligence or genius. Genius is something that cannot be seen. It cannot be produced or manufactured. It is something that even the true genius thinks is unattainable. The genius recognizes he’s just a small pea in a sea of infinite atoms. Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.