Discovery Quotes

Writing is both an act of power and surrender. Passion and discovery. It is a tug at your soul that continues to pull you forward, even as you go kicking and screaming.” (p.18)

~ Laraine Herring

For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly in the world, Leviathan gasping on his hook, he is saved from extreme mental disorder by the most profound affirmation of the real.

~ Richard Rhodes

Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?

~ Ogwo David Emenike

Dharma is something that one discovers, because one cannot create something that is already there.

~ Vd.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

~ Bertrand Russell

The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

~ Christopher Hitchens

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

~ Kedar Joshi

Self-discovery is the key to knowing what to do with your life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain areas of knowledge. You cannot be totally greedy. You have to oblige yourself not to learn everything. Or else you will learn nothing.

~ Umberto Eco

Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.

~ Amit Kalantri

Creativity is the key to discovery.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Knowledge is truth.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To respect a mystery is to make way for the answer.

~ Criss Jami

Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot.

~ Criss Jami

On building homes for fallen angels:When I was small - I sought a home,a place to go and rest my bones.Then founded something, of my own,I lived among the restless stones.If seeking leads you back to evil,what good is that, I asked a weevil.He said a home is what you make,it can't be real, if it is fake...And if you wait instead of seek,will you find love, or something bleak?I know (myself) for I have found,a beauty, hidden – in a sound.Waiting is boring.And so is exploring.A smile is sometimes all it takes.And then your whole world simply breaks.

~ Will Advise

Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.

~ Criss Jami

To be successful, love yourself and be originally you. Discover what you were born to do and do it well.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

~ Abraham Lincoln

The greatest discovery is to be founded by God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.

~ Christopher Nolan

Purpose discovery is a journey and not an event.

~ D.s. Mashego

The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place. The few books she had read and liked had been fairy-story books, and she had read of secret gardens in some of the stories. Sometimes people went to sleep in them for a hundred years, which she had thought must be rather stupid. She had no intention of going to sleep, and, in fact, she was becoming wider awake every day which passed at Misselthwaite.

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

Solitude is a wonderful treasure the world is still yet to discover.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Discover what you could do with your life and empower yourself in that area. Add value to yourself in that your area of calling.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The products your life must have could be in the form of scientific discoveries you have made.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are, with something called time seemingly precious, but not deeply appreciated.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The first thing you want to do to become great is to discover your area of calling.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You can never truly become great if you do not discover your purpose in life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Strive to discover why you exist and then begin to invest your time into your purpose and calling.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Those who have become great have only discovered something that the rest of the world has not discovered.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The reason why one man is great and another is not is simply because one man discovered the power of time while the other did not.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You can leave your mark in the sand of history just by discovering the secrets of greatness through time conversion.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Don’t be too rigid, always be ready and eager to make new discoveries

~ Sunday Adelaja

Empower yourself and discover what you can do with your life through hard work, concentration and research

~ Sunday Adelaja

After losing you job, you have to sit, relax and discover yourself

~ Sunday Adelaja

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

~ Albert Szent-Györgyi

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours. . . .

~ James D. Watson

Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain-machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.

~ L. Frank Baum

In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.

~ John Gribbin

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche