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Discovery Quotes


"Open your eyes to new opportunities."


"Beneath beautiful appearances I search out ugly depths, and beneath ignoble surfaces I probe for the hidden mines of devotion and virtue. It's a relatively benign mania, which enables you to see something new in a place where you would not have expected to find it."


"I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts."


"We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise."


"This is newness: every little tawdryObstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar,Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only youDon't know what to make of the sudden slippiness,The blind, white, awful, inaccessible slant.There's no getting up it by the words you know.No getting up by elephant or wheel or shoe.We have only come to look. You are too newTo want the world in a glass hat."


"The discovery that I soon made that the guinea pig was also susceptible to infection made it possible for me, from the third year on, to preserve the virus on this animal."


"Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner."


"Discovering yourself is the major key to being successful."


"Your bread may be small but with God's blessing it will increase."


"This led to the discovery that long chain fatty acids would remarkably stabilize serum albumin to heat denaturation, and would even reverse the denaturation by heat or concentrated urea solutions."


"Devote time wisely to discover your true self."


"Discover your gift and talent, then start a process of production with it if you desire to be prosperous."


"Yet in our hands and within our view is a whole universe of discovery and clarification, which is a pleasure to study in itself, gives the average person access to insights that not even Darwin or Einstein possessed, and offers the promise of near-miraculous advances in healing, in energy, and in peaceful exchange between different cultures. Yet millions of people in all societies still prefer the myths of the cave and the tribe and the blood sacrifice."


"Each of us has a latent energy and we need to discover this invisible "treasure by the way of concentration."


"All great and famous people understand that the chief priority in their life is to discover oneself, ones calling and to devote one's life to its fulfilment."


"Remember that often we will not know the small details of our life mission."


"The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole."


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


"Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain."


"Your discovery determines what you are known for."


"Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed."


"To know your purpose, you have to find yourself."


"To discover the original plan of God is to manifest the work of creation."


"You can't hide from wisdom, it's everywhere; you won't find it in everyone, it's too rare."


"Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery."



"No matter how deeply you come to know a place, you can keep coming back to know it more."


"I am ready for the most exhilarating time of my life, discovery before me, negativity behind me, through the road to ruin, I will find within me, my most unshakeable truth."


"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities."


"Perplexity is the beginning of a new way."


"He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there."


"You certainly usually find something if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after."
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