Discovery Quotes

1801 Discovery quotes by 1187 unique authors

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in… — Henri Nouwen
I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without… — Lloyd Alexander
Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny. — Ravi Zacharias
In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending… — Janet Frame
I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable. — Francoise Sagan
One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made… — Edith Wharton
There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.)… — William Goldman
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation. — Benjamin Disraeli
She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught… — Louise Erdrich
The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world… — Margaret Bourke-White
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver
True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring — once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale… — Stephen King
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral… — Andre Gide
...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness… — Anne Lamott
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. — Rollo May
To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is. — Carl Jung
For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is… — Virginia Woolf
Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory… — Terence McKenna
A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed. — Matt Ridley
It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t know what else… — Donna Tartt
the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute — Amartya Sen
I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in… — Barbara Mertz
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while… — George Eliot

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