Stumbled Upon Quotes
12 quotes by 12 authors
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Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number…
— Charles Kettering
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As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency-or, rather, Agency-must be involved. Is it possible that suddenly, without intending…
— George Greenstein
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Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night…
— Nancy Mairs
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The man who is egoless is the man who has no ideals. Let this be the criterion, and you have stumbled upon a fundamental. The…
— Rajneesh
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I don't claim to be an expert on this, but I think ADD and creativity may be the same thing; it's just that they can't…
— Hal Elrod
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Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my…
— Nikola Tesla
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to…
— Ayn Rand
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Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb…
— Jon Krakauer
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A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon,…
— Michael Ondaatje
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... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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There was a burst of laughter so sudden Miri jumped to her feet in alarm. Bena and Liana had pushed Peder out of the bed…
— Shannon Hale
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All my life Ive made up fairy tales of my prince charming. Countless Cinderella stories that helped make my fairy tale a reality in my…
— Reezy
Who Wrote These Stumbled Upon Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 12 Stumbled Upon Quotes as follows: