Discovers Quotes

227 Discovers quotes by 191 unique authors

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he… — Elbert Hubbard
Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that–where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed. — Marvin Minsky
Through meditation one discovers one's own light. That light you can call your soul, your self, your God—whatsoever word you choose—or you can remain just… — Rajneesh
Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not… — Fran Lebowitz
Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill,… — Margaret Mead
Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she has a medical… — Joel Fuhrman
What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go. — Lynne Truss
As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of… — Anthony Burgess
Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female - discovers something… — Juliet Marillier
A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler. — William Greider
The cause of the six-sided shape of a snowflake is none other than that of the ordered shapes of plants and of numerical constants; and… — Johannes Kepler
Our world is incomplete until each one of us discovers what moves us - our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must… — Richard Leider
place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his… — Confucius
There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science.… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
No one "discovers" the future. The future is not a discovery. The future is not a destiny. The future is a decision, an intervention. Do… — Leonard Sweet
God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they… — Joseph Addison
He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to… — Francis Quarles
I call 'crystallization' that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events. — Stendhal
The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's only gift that… — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw,… — Philip Guston
Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds them… — William Melmoth
What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work. — Emil Nolde
So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and… — Edgar Quinet
The outer is easier, and the outer is objective. For example, one man, Thomas Alva Edison, discovers electricity and the whole of humanity uses it;… — Rajneesh

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