Discovery Quotes

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.
Albert Einstein

Feeling, Intuition, Order

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein

Process, Wonder, Scientific

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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce

Mistakes, Portals

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey

Change, Time, Attitude

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

Real, Eyes, Seeking

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

Education, Ignorance

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

Life, Greatest, Human

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

Eyes, Seeking, Voyage

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Thomas Merton

Important, Able, Moon

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Knowledge, Ignorance, Greatest

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell

Happiness, Time, Made

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
Aldous Huxley

Beauty, Men, Morning

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

Love, Others, Ourselves

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

Real, Eyes, Seeking

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
Thomas Merton

God, Truth, Step

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.
Billy Corgan

Nature, Spiritual, Journey

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth, Opinion, Present

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas Carlyle

Great, Men, Made

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
Rene Descartes

Hope, Judge, Others

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
Stephen Hawking

Knowledge, Become, Scientists

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
James Joyce

Errors, Portals

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

Mistakes, Makes, Genius

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Will Durant

Age, Great, Freedom

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

Rather, Knowing, Cheering

There is no better high than discovery.
E. O. Wilson

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
Oliver Tambo

Power, Truth, Help

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.
Samuel Smiles

Success, Failure, Wisdom

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.
William Shatner

Time, Nothing, Writing

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
Albert Pike

Doubt, Reason, Progress

But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.
William Shatner

Love, Truth, Happened

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