Chance Quote by Eric Hoffer

We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.

— Madeleine L'Engle

We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.

— Hal Hartley

We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on…

— Thomas A. Edison

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

— Eric Hoffer

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…

— Anonymous

Discovery comes as a result of positive discontent, a constructive dissatisfaction. In fact, one might quite truthfully say that there is no discovery when…

— Myron Allen

We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new."…

— Richard Hofstadter

You basically only discover a new thing once.

— Urs Fischer

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong.”

— Thomas S. Kuhn

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

— John Steinbeck

We're always waiting to discover new parts of ourselves.

— Rose