Discovering Quotes

489 Discovering quotes by 416 unique authors

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking… — Ramana Maharshi
He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And that's how we ended up discovering the evil horses that threatened all of humanity. — Katherine Applegate
It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private lives… — Jonathan Kozol
One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it… — Regina Doman
They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that… — Salman Rushdie
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort. — Fred Rogers
It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective – it’s like hearing your voice on an answering machine.… — Slash
It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim. — Sarah Dessen
Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and… — Julia Child
And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you're more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to… — Bette Greene
I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was. — Julia Child
Everything comes down to this: the reason for every word I have written and every word I will write. I am recounting my life for… — Arthur Japin
We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be… — George Bernard Shaw
I love trying things and discovering how I hate them. — D. H. Lawrence
Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life. It is each little thing that you do that day - whether it be… — Jack Canfield
Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting for… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing. — Rob Sheffield
You're not built for riding, either," Horace added. "I'd say more saddle sore than homesick." Svenal sighed ruefully, shifting his buttocks for the twentieth time… — John Flanagan
The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain — Margaret Mitchell
In reality the world is made of thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each… — Neil Gaiman
I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath… — Ray Bradbury
I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes… — Jeanette Winterson

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