Discovery Quotes · Page 31

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

— Victor Hugo

“There is no cure for illusion. There is only the opportunity for discovery.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

— Paul Henderson

In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time,…

— Patricia Nell Warren

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

— Alan Lightman

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery,

— James Geary

Life is about finding out who you are while enjoying the journey to get there.

— Abhishek Tiwari

This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two…

— William McDonough

So great becomes the fear of losing what we have that many of us rush back to hide under the temporary shelter…

— Arianna Huffington

To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful…

— D. H. Lawrence

I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps…

— Jamaica Kincaid

To be perfectly honest, I have not watched 'Discovery,' I was ignorant of the fact that it was even coming out. I…

— Penny Johnson Jerald

In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that…

— Carl Sagan

Too often, researchers on the cusp of a new discovery are held back by needless red tape and paperwork, meaning their innovative…

— Alok Sharma

In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really…

— Ellen Glasgow

For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications…

— George Orwell

Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them,…

— Freeman Dyson

I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the…

— Baruch Spinoza

The Sketchnote Handbook is neither about sketching nor is it about note taking. It's about receiving and processing the world in a…

— Stefan G. Bucher

If you want to play the game and win, you've got to play 'full out.' You've got to be willing to feel…

— Tony Robbins

Infancy is the realm conveyed to us in dreams which look backward to the past. Adolescence, more like a work of art,…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before…

— Abraham Lincoln

I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that…

— Carl Sagan

“Strive to discover why you exist and then begin to invest your time into your purpose and calling.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.

— Spike Jonze

“Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you…

— Kurt Warner

I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and…

— Christopher Hitchens

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.

— Sydney J. Harris

...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.

— David Irving

If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of…

— Martha Beck

“‎"The greatest discovery you'll ever make, is the potential of your own mind.”

— Jose Silva

Men need to learn that they're better off telling the truth right away, because women will always find out eventually.

— Anonymous

Greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the way to future discovery.

— John Jacob Abel

Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.

— Henry R. Luce

Scientific discoveries and innovation come from combining different existing technologies and different perspectives in a unique way.

— Charles Koch

Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.

— Joseph Campbell