Discovery Quotes

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As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself… — Susan Sontag
Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity. — William Stanley Jevons
The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of… — Ernest Rutherford
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry… — Swami Vivekananda
What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question. — Jonas Salk
He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in… — Max Lerner
Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay… — Alan Coren
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love. — Lucretius
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed… — Charles Caleb Colton
It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery… — Robertson Davies
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true. — John Keats
No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination. — George Henry Lewes
The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years,… — Thomas Paine
This perfected body can be compared to a mirror, and the human spirit to the sun. Nevertheless, if the mirror breaks, the bounty of the… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation. — Victor Hugo
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. — Jackson Pollock
An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under… — Henri Matisse
Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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