One Discovers Quotes
25 quotes by 23 authors
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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
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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
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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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
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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
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Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.
— James R. Schlesinger
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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
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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
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Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
— Essie Summers
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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
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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
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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
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Through meditation one discovers one's own light. That light you can call your soul, your self, your God—whatsoever word you choose—or you can remain just…
— Rajneesh
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What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.
— Lynne Truss
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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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
Who Wrote These One Discovers Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 25 One Discovers Quotes as follows: