Discovery Quotes

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

Look, I'm going to take full advantage of this situation just because I love working with great filmmakers. But I've been around for a while, and I'm not going to play into the hype that I'm some great, you know, discovery.

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists.

There is no better high than discovery.

It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.

Sex is a discovery.

Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

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

A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

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