Discovery Quotes

1801 Discovery quotes by 1187 unique authors

I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew. — Leo Tolstoy
An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline. — John F. Kennedy
The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of facts; it is… — Walter Lippmann
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. — R. Buckminster Fuller
A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views. — Luc de Clapiers
You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself. — D. H. Lawrence
All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image… — Ernst Gombrich
For discovering one's true inner nature, I think one should try to take out some time, with quiet and relaxation, to think more inwardly and… — Dalai Lama
You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should… — Pablo Picasso
The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor. — Leonardo da Vinci
The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a… — Karl Marx
I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it… — Georges Braque
Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. .… — Epictetus
Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved. — Richard Whately
To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover... — Martin Buber
I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light… — Thomas A. Edison
What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude,… — Edward Abbey
I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. — Georges Braque
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. — Aldo Leopold
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again. — Will Smith
Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery. — John C. Maxwell
We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new… — Jacob Bronowski
The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and… — Chogyam Trungpa
This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge,… — Meher Baba
We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted. — Robert Henri

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