Ancient Quote by John O'Donohue

What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures practiced careful…

— John O'Donohue

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till…

— George Polya

Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought. Sharp, prolonged thinking is necessary that we…

— Theobald Smith

I try to explore, in terms of the life I know best, those things which are common to all cultures.

— August Wilson

In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of attempt to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation…

— Tim O'Brien

Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth…

— Anne Brontë

When we feel like we discover something, we are usually uncovering or realizing what has always been there. The laws of nature are always…

— Tara Stiles

“Every discovery in science and art, is due to the trained power of seeing things ... Keep your eyes open, your ears open ... Trace difficulties.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.

— Eckhart Tolle