Discovers Quotes

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The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an… — Jean Piaget
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
If you ever have to steal money from your kid, and later on he discovers it's gone, I think a good thing to do is… — Jack Handey
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please. — Andre Malraux
Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul. — Auguste Rodin
Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and… — Wilferd Peterson
Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and… — Pope John Paul II
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause,… — Thomas Aquinas
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men… — Jean Piaget
The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or… — Gustave Courbet
Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about… — Bruce Lee
The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose, his… — Murray Rothbard
If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that… — Joseph Brodsky
If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions… — Alexis Carrel
As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular… — Robert Fulton
When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it. — Bernard Bailyn
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not… — Ada Lovelace

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