Discovered Quotes
1755 Discovered quotes by 1341 unique authors
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I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who…
— Greg Peterson
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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
— Alan Bradley
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As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great…
— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
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The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide or narrow, brilliant…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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In 1932, lame duck president Herbert Hoover was so desperate to remain in the White House that he dressed up as Eleanor Roosevelt. When FDR…
— Johnny Carson
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Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
— Sophocles
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If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.
— George Foreman
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The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is…
— Primo Levi
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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in…
— Cyril Connolly
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I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.
— Isadora Duncan
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Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.
— Susan Sontag
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I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired…
— Damon Runyon
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If I'd have gone to art school, or stayed in anthropology, I probably would have ended up back in film ... Mostly I just followed…
— George Lucas
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The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?
— William Saroyan
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There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point which he is…
— Hilaire Belloc
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A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted to…
— David Hume
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I discovered the wife's got asthma. Thank God - I thought she was hissing at me.
— Les Dawson
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Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.
— Guy Finley
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On my visits to America, I discovered that the old Marxist dictum, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs," was…
— Felix Houphouet-Boigny
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Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So…
— W. P. Kinsella
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I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said,…
— Melanie Laurent
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I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed…
— Kurt Masur
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I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.
— Olivier Martinez
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I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.
— Gerald Caiafa
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