Discovery Quotes

Discovery Quote of the day

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the development of ideas that it becomes fascinating.

I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.

Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

An injury is not just a process of recovery it's a process of discovery.

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.

The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.

Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance

The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching.