Famous Quotes & Sayings

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

Taylor Branch

The lessons that come from discovery of the Movement's story should point us forward.

Robert Sean Leonard

The less I work, the happier I am. I discovered that, as most people discover at some point.

The legal landscape has tilted dramatically. We have to work with everyone to discourage this.

The leagues, especially the NFL, don't want to discount their product for a particular market,

Plato

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

John O'Donohue

The hunger to belong is not merely a desire to be attached to something. It is rather sensing that great transformation and discovery become possible when belonging is sheltered and true.

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.

John Dewey

The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

John Berger

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

Joe Harris

The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.

Joan Miro

I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for instance, has not been the discovery of a day. It took shape in spite of myself... That is why I am always working on a hundred different things at the same time.

Jimmy Wales

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it.

Amoco-BP has shown the way, ... Big is better because you need more power to discover oil and you need more strength.

Edward Teller

[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.

Edith Hamilton

They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

The markets are going to discount Nigerian production in the price of oil. It could be that it shuts down all of Shell's onshore operations in Nigeria.

Hermann Hesse

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds ... This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between the treasure of their discoveries and the curiosity of the profane the tremendous dragon of their closed terminology.

Napoleon Hill

We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

Lynn Abbey

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

Lord Kelvin

When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.

Lord Kelvin

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

Malcolm Bradbury

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery?

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.

Henri Poincare

Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.

Henri Poincare

Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?

Henri Poincare

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

Henrik Ibsen

Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.

Henri Nouwen

The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness that my that my existence itself is not in the center. Once I 'know' God, that is, once I experience God's love as the love in which all my human experiences are anchored, I can desire only one thing: to be in that love.