Discovery Quotes

1801 Discovery quotes by 1187 unique authors

The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer… — Henry David Thoreau
It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness,… — Leland Ryken
The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself… — Karl Kraus
We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Yoga is not just repetition of few postures - it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life. — Amit Ray
Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child. — Dr. Seuss
The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich — Andrew Carnegie
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the… — Giuseppe Mazzini
What counts, I found, is not what you cover, but what you uncover. Covering subjects in a class can be a boring exercise, and students… — Walter Lewin
The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel. — Timothy Keller
It is an extraordinary and beautiful thing that God, in creation. . . works with the beauty of matter; the reality of things; the discoveries… — Madeleine L'Engle
If I am lucky, something new and inexplicable often appears in front of my lens. I am always surprised by the mystery of how my… — Joyce Tenneson
Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered alphabetically or by… — Alberto Manguel
Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a definite result and… — Alexander Graham Bell
The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places. — Thomas Merton
It is almost possible to say that there is a mathematical relationship between the beauty of his surroundings and the activity of the child; he… — Maria Montessori
We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work. — James Krenov
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries . — Elie Wiesel
Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding… — Walker Percy
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a… — Alexander Smith
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a… — Alexander Smith
For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery — Joseph Epstein
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an… — Virginia Woolf

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