Quotes about discovery
discovery literature logic
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. Gertrude Stein
discovery feelings genius
Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling. Hans Hofmann
discovery fields language
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have. Frances Mayes
discovery sells
God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else? George Washington Carver
discovery self knows
We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one's self.
discovery done benefits
One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing else done. But mainly I don't want my discoveries to benefit specific favored persons.
discovery differences world
No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world. G. H. Hardy
discovery knowing world
It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all. Fyodor Dostoevsky
discovery what-matters life-is
Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.
discovery self treasure
One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up. Friedrich Nietzsche
discovery each-day life-is
Life is a creation, not a discovery. You do not live each day to discover what it holds for you, but to create it Neale Donald Walsch
discovery challenges trying
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. Nate Berkus
discovery criticism critics
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries. Milan Kundera
discovery talent reason
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. Joseph Addison
discovery dragons discipline
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. Jose Ortega y Gasset
discovery america people
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. Jimmy Carter
discovery lessons point
The lessons that come from discovery of the Movement's story should point us forward. Taylor Branch
discovery early existed far humans north
The discovery that early humans could have existed this far north this long ago was startling. Chris Stringer
discovery hides man mission mist mixture throws truth unique
THE discovery of Truth is the unique mission of man. Man is a mixture of Maya and Madhava; the Maya throws a mist which hides the Madhava.
discovery challenges tests
[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile. Edward Teller
discovery glowing childhood
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. Hermann Hesse
discovery intuition important
Intuition is more important to discovery than logic. Henri Poincare
discovery important guessing
Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?
discovery generations spontaneity
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
discovery blood ideas
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. Henrik Ibsen
discovery choices desire
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. Henri Nouwen
discovery painful theological
Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.
discovery poet made
Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers. Henry R. Luce
discovery unexpected hard
Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain. Heraclitus
discovery meditation intuition
The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom.--Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius. Johann Kaspar Lavater
discovery ideas waiting
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 Hill
discovery slave printing
Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave. Napoleon Bonaparte
discovery astrology intellectual
But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. Marvin Minsky