Discovery Quotes

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Eureka! (I have found it!).

Architecture is not created, it is discovered – the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend them.

A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

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

The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind.

To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.

An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

No-one really thought of fission before its discovery.

I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Satsang is the invitation to step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will burn only what you are not.

The only journey is the one within.

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it. Self-discovery takes us to the wildest places on earth

Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.

For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)

The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme.

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

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.

A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.

As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

I spent my days on the riverbanks, in the woods, in the fields, shooting, hunting and stalking. I unravelled everything within my life. Self discovery is most important to me.

All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.