Discovered Quotes
1755 Discovered quotes by 1341 unique authors
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The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.
— Abraham Lincoln
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I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.
— Ray Floyd
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I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.
— Walker Percy
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I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.
— Joseph Heller
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My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name…
— Terry Brooks
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This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked…
— George Herbert
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Everybody is afraid they won't have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it with him. He had his…
— Bob Hope
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The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.
— Ayn Rand
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We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible…
— Jean Genet
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How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?
— Jay Leno
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Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so…
— Dave Barry
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I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and would never…
— Tony Robbins
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You will have no peace until you have discovered how to forgive yourself, to forgive other people and let them forgive you.
— Dorothy Rowe
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Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the ridicule…
— Charles Babbage
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What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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[W]hen Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of…
— William J. Clinton
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I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!
— David Copperfield
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When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
— Earl Weaver
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It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical…
— Bertrand Russell
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Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.
— Adolf Hitler
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Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and…
— Hippocrates
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I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than…
— Jimmy Buffett
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