Discovers Quotes
227 Discovers quotes by 191 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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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
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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
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When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.
— Bernard Bailyn
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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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The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create... he discovers.
— Antonio Gaudi
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As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make…
— Michel de Montaigne
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A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution.
— Nils Heribert-Nilsson
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A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.
— Albert Einstein
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Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.
— Joseph Fourier
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Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have been given it,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul…
— Walter Benjamin
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
— Annie Dillard
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I still regard myself as an amateur today and I hope that's what I'll stay until the end of my life. Because I'm forever a…
— Andre Kertesz
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