Discovery Quotes

...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

Even more important than the discovery of Columbus, which we are gathered together to celebrate, is the fact that the general government has just discovered women.

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and plunge on. Writing is a means of discovery, always.

This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.

Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.

Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.

The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.

Souls have different journeys. The best thing to know is, not what everybody else does, but what you do. Self-discovery essentially is finding your own dharma, your own rhythm.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.

Disruptors don't have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.

The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!

The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

To find is the thing.

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

If four of you are playing hide and seek you'll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you're looking for? You are the very thing that you seek.

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.