Discovery Quotes

1801 Discovery quotes by 1187 unique authors

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest… — Henry David Thoreau
This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power. — Philip K. Dick
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized. — Rajneesh
Too bad Einstein’s dead. I’m sure he would have appreciated my latest discovery within the space-time continuum.The closer you are to experiencing a monumental event,… — Susane Colasanti
The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the… — Brennan Manning
From my stone pillow I have dreamed dreams of the mortal world above. I have heard its voices, its new music, as lullabies as I… — Anne Rice
There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that such a library… — Italo Calvino
I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is… — Wystan Hugh Auden
With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It is better to travel with hope in one's heart than to arrive in safety. . . . We should celebrate today's failure because it… — Jacqueline Kelly
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his phrases.… — E. Lockhart
But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it… — Leo Tolstoy
From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most… — Richard P. Feynman
The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was… — Margaret Mitchell
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. — Isaac Newton
All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the game… — Hugh Nibley
The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and… — Hugh Walpole
I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands… — Virginia Woolf
When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the… — Bill Bryson
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but… — Tom Wolfe
we can harness the energy of the winds, the seas, the sun . But the day man learns to harness the energy of love, that… — Paulo Coelho
Shaun has working his audience into a frenzy down to a science; by the time he's done with them, they get excited by the mysterious… — Mira Grant
There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about… — Woody Allen

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