Discovery Quotes · Page 40

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

— William James

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

— Timothy Keller

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and…

— Anonymous

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

— Marcel Proust

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

— Richard P. Feynman

Goals are like diaries if kept secreted they can last decades until discovered.

— Noah Stanley

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it…Like some animal.

— Denise Levertov

I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every…

— Bruce Lee

There is a source of incredible power within you. When you discover the truth of who you are, connect with it and…

— Senora Roy

With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of…

— Joaquin Sorolla

It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these…

— Albert Hofmann

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has…

— Hugh Walpole

Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis…

— Gottlob Frege

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made…

— William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

Death is inevitable from the perspective that, if you're done here on earth, you have completed what is necessary to have been…

— Timothy Treadwell

Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces…

— Isaac Newton

“What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the general. They are mostly hindsight:…

— Eudora Welty

It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of…

— Nikola Tesla

Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“To prove to an indignant questioner on the spur of the moment that the work I do was useful seemed a thankless…

— A.V. Hill

Just as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery and would exist if all humanity forgets it, so it is with…

— Swami Vivekananda

lf you’re going to deal with reality, you’re going to have to make one big discovery: Reality is something that belongs to…

— Frank Zappa

Observe that the body of man is confined to a small place; it covers only two spans of earth. But the spirit…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

It means that we should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet…

— Jacqueline Kelly

The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the…

— Rupert Spira

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

— Isaac Newton

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

— Tom Vilsack

Every man has its own mistake and every mistake has a guide.A guide that can be follow by discovery and every discovery…

— Squidball

Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery?

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“-which discovery is totally a matter of application, self-analysis, and experience.”

— James Allen

I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

— Paul Auster

We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.

— David Cooperrider

You tend to understand yourself a little better after each role you play. There’s somewhat of a self-discovery.

— Shahid Kapoor

The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike

— Anonymous

I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.

— Arthur L. Herman

A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.

— Vash Young

Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Whenever I'm thinking for a new quote, I always thinking of you and all our sweet memories

— Carla Gualvez

Coming from 'Homework,' which was a really minimal album, 'Discovery' was much more difficult to perform on stage.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo