We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we've explored less… — Edith Widder Copy Share Image
Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury,… — John Henry Wigmore Copy Share Image
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
“When it was time to board my flight, I took one last glance back. I knew that I had everything with me… — Andrea Bouchaud Copy Share Image
Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I'm trying to learn something about making a balance between the inner life and the outer life. I wouldn't write if I… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Sven's actual results on the park were not quite good enough to make him a hero, and not quite bad enough to… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at… — Heinrich Burkhardt Copy Share Image
The greatest discovery in life, the most precious treasure, is of awareness. Without it you are bound to be in darkness, full… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling.… — Gotye Copy Share Image
Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
My kids download 10 games. They play them all for two minutes. They throw away the eight they don't like. Then they… — Mitch Lasky Copy Share Image
“Leaders are raised through training and experience. Nobody was born naturally with hand-gloves of leadership. We come to life to search for… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Cadila, India's sixth-largest drugmaker by sales, spent $250 million developing Lipaglyn, a new chemical entity or new discovery, and aims to spend… — Pankaj Patel Copy Share Image
I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches'… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I think it is the natural and innate function of certain organisms to secrete beauty in permanent forms we call artworks, to… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I don't see writing as a communication of something already discovered, as "truths" already known. Rather, I see writing as a job… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
“A strange mixture of disbelief and complete trust washed over me. On the one hand, I had no way to explain what… — Larry Gottlieb Copy Share Image
...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's… — Joseph C Zinker Copy Share Image
The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
She had a sadness that was so deep, but it still could turn to light in a second,and when I saw her… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a… — Judy Biggert Copy Share Image
Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
