Discovery Quote by Thomas Merton
“When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago.”
“When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago.”
![“Writing [my journal] was the only way I could keep track of the last experience before a new one came along and erased the old one from my thoughts.” quote by Kristine K. Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b65/kristine-k-stevens-34754_quote_writing-my-journal-was-the-only-way-i-co_490212.jpg)
![“Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this…” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/449/abraham-lincoln-88_adoption_next-came-the-patent-laws-these-began-in_1828.jpg)
![“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.” quote by George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9be/george-eliot-84_agony_w-e-must-learn-to-accommodate-ourselves_12409.jpg)
![“That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.” quote by Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/61e/rem-koolhaas-5371_cities_that-has-been-another-interesting-discov_15915.jpg)
