Famous Quotes & Sayings

Myles Munroe

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Milton Friedman

The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the intellectual community and on the public at large.

Julian Barnes

Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.

He actually just picked out the trash bag, and it felt heavier than what he expected, ... He looked inside, and that's when he discovered it.

Ivan Illich

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

Gloria Steinem

It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were six and saying, 'I'm six and a half.' You know, we could be saying, 'I'm fifty and a half' and say it with joy. Each age is different and has different discoveries and pleasures.

Harold E. Varmus

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

H. L. Mencken

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

Georg Cantor

I entertain no doubts as to the truths of the tranfinites, which I recognized with God's help and which, in their diversity, I have studied for more than twenty years; every year, and almost every day brings me further in this science.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.

Horace Walpole

Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable.

Homer

By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

If I can get one good jump in then that can get me into the Big East and maybe something can be discovered the next week and I'm fine. You just have to keep plugging along.

If he can discover some kind of service on top of word processing that helps people work with one another over the Web, then he may be on to something.

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound.

Jennifer Haigh

I believed, after writing 'Mrs. Kimble,' that I knew how to write a novel. I quickly discovered that I only knew how to write that novel. 'Baker Towers' was a different beast entirely; and I felt as though I had to learn to write all over again.

James D. Watson

The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.

Jamaica Kincaid

I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps I stand on the brink of a great discovery.

Jack Williamson

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

Isaac Asimov

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

Isaac Asimov

To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.

Iris Apfel

I do have a dominant shopping gene but, unlike a reasonable person, I never plan for what I need each season. I enjoy the thrill of the hunt, the discovery and the endless search. In another creation I was, perhaps, a hunter/gatherer. After all these years, I’ve learned that it’s not the end result or finished product but the process I most enjoy. If my experimenting, searching and juxtaposing turns into an exciting outfit well, it’s just a big fat bonus!

Neale Donald Walsch

Life is a creation, not a discovery. You do not live each day to discover what it holds for you, but to create it

Nate Berkus

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

Milan Kundera

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Joseph Addison

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

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.

Jimmy Carter

America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only in the discoveries as proven by Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics and that sort of thing, but we've been able to put that into practical application with new gadgets that people admire.

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.

Plato

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