Discovering Quotes

489 Discovering quotes by 416 unique authors

Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising up into space,… — Paulo Coelho
No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone… — Megan Abbott
I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. the only difference is that I am getting used to… — Rachel Joyce
In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies, or that Norsemen… — Jon Stewart
having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life. — David Levithan
The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it. — Leo Tolstoy
When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for. — Salman Rushdie
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is… — Alan Watts
If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good at it, will… — Anne Lamott
Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a… — Rollo May
History is the discovering of the principles of human nature. — David Hume
It is well when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered amongst the multitudes.… — Horace Mann
When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself. — Jean Piaget
A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or… — Samuel Johnson
Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics. — Unknown Author
Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience… — Ian Mckellen
Organic farming appealed to me because it involved searching for and discovering nature's pathways, as opposed to the formulaic approach of chemical farming. The appeal… — Eliot Coleman
Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius. — Robert Breault
I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's… — Fidel Castro
When I was a young student, I only listened to foreign music, mainly rock music and hard rock. Then I surprised myself by discovering ethnic… — Dmitry Medvedev
Surveying the way viruses have been discovered in the past, I came to the conclusion that I could use my technology that I developed as… — Joseph DeRisi

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