One Discovers Quotes

25 quotes by 23 authors

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it… — John Cage
You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers… — Anthony F. C. Wallace
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have been given it,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least… — Charles Dudley Warner
Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without. — James R. Schlesinger
Each culture has some knowledge. That's why I studied with Saj Dev, an Indian flute player. That's why I studied Stockhausen's music. The pygmies' music… — Yusef Lateef
There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one… — Robert Ardrey
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. — Essie Summers
The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through,… — James Salter
I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus [ ... ] The reconciliation of the methods… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine. — Marianne Moore
Through meditation one discovers one's own light. That light you can call your soul, your self, your Godâ€”whatsoever word you chooseâ€”or you can remain just… — Rajneesh
What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go. — Lynne Truss
place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his… — Confucius
No one "discovers" the future. The future is not a discovery. The future is not a destiny. The future is a decision, an intervention. Do… — Leonard Sweet
La dernie'Â re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie'Â re. The last thing one discovers… — Blaise Pascal
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until… — Norman Mailer
Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of â€˜not knowing. — Mark Z. Danielewski
One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities.… — Anais Nin

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