Discovery Quotes

1801 Discovery quotes by 1187 unique authors

What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make… — Adyashanti
For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things. — Alec Soth
Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery -… — Bruce Lee
Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had touched a problem,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Less and less is life animated through personal discovery, intimacy with others, or self-reflection. While life has become more manageable for many people, it has… — Kirk J. Schneider
Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and… — Albert Einstein
Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my work… — Thomas A. Edison
To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a… — H. L. Mencken
The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search. — Ernest Dimnet
No rocket will reach the moon save by a miraculous discovery of an explosive far more energetic than any known. And even if the requisite… — Nikola Tesla
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you… — Marilyn Hacker
AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS AS A REVELATION,… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make an even more… — Eknath Easwaran
Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young — George Bernard Shaw
At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their citizens… — John Charles Polanyi
In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in… — Rupert Sheldrake
It is clear that while science provides insights into the complexity of the world around us, those insights...present a fractured mosaic rather than a seamless… — David Suzuki
...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire. — David Irving
... How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very important means of… — Alexander Shulgin
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth,… — Hugh Walpole
The good life is not an amount; it's an attitude, an act, an idea, a discovery, a search. — Jim Rohn
Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books… — C.S. Lewis
Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in… — Mortimer Adler
(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem. — Alexander Fleming

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