“What love lays bare in me is energy.”

“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

“Deceit is this world's passport: who would dare,
However pure the breast, to lay it bare?”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

“If you expect a physician to help you, you must lay bare your wound.”
Si operam medicantis exspectas, oportet vulnus detegas.

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480) philosopher of the early 6th century

“Gideon was an untamed animal behind closed doors, a lover who bared me to the soul every time he made love to me.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

“I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface”

Philip Roth book American Pastoral

“It is not [the biographer's] business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them…dispassionately, impartially, and without ulterior motives.”

Lytton Strachey book Eminent Victorians

“An authentically powered person lives in love. Love is the energy of the soul. Love is what heals the personality. There is nothing that cannot be healed by love. There is nothing but love.”

Gary Zukav (1942) American writer and revivalist

“On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.”

Emanuel Lasker (1868–1941) German World Chess Champion and grandmaster, contract bridge player, mathematician, and philosopher

“Instead of fighting the old, use that energy to build the new, and promote what you love.”

Ralph Smart