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Discovery Quotes
"When someone is seeking, said Siddartha, "It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose."
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"Your bread may be small but with God's blessing it will increase."
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"Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed."
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"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."
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"At first, that's who I was. I wanted to know more about this boy who lives among us, but who never truly speaks... But now I feel like finding out about him is one of the ways I found out about myself. I did not expect to love his words. I did no expect to find myself in the."
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"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."
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"Perplexity is the beginning of a new way."
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"To find doesn't always require to search."
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"I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that's hard to do for a city kid because when you look up you just see buildings - and really, your first thought is to look in people's windows. So to look out of the space - out of living space - and look up to the sky, binoculars go far, literally and figuratively."
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"Some things can't be taught, they can only be discovered."
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"If you have never found yourself, the best place to look is in your loneliness, and rock-bottom is even better."
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"Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish."
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"You really saw some?' Liz said an hour later. Sure, we had the stereo blaring and the shower running, but Liz still whispered, 'They really...exist?' 'Liz,' I whispered back, 'they're not unicorns.' 'No,' Bex said flatly, 'they're boys. And they're...good."
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"But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire - or the propensity for fillings to fall out of bystanders' teeth when attempting to tease a rainstorm out of a cloud."
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"Humboldt's early biographer, F.A. Schwarzenberg, subtitled his life of Humboldt What May Be Accomplished in a Lifetime. He summarised the areas of his subject's extraordinary curiosity as follows: '1) The knowledge of the Earth and its inhabitants. 2) The discovery of the higher laws of nature, which govern the universe, men, animals, plants, minerals. 3) The discovery of new forms of life. 4) The discovery of territories hitherto but imperfectly known, and their various productions. 5)The acquaintance with new species of the human race--- their manners, their language and the historical traces of their culture.' What may be accomplished in a lifetime---and seldom or never is."
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"To know your purpose, you have to find yourself."
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"Devote time wisely to discover your true self."
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"You can't hide from wisdom, it's everywhere; you won't find it in everyone, it's too rare."
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"Discover your gift and talent, then start a process of production with it if you desire to be prosperous."
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"I seek plain truth I do and I have to I find strange oddities I am now sure I will reveal secrets."
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"Your discovery determines what you are known for."
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"What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit..."
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"Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with."
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"Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone."
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"It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes."
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"Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!"
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"Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery."
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"The world is full of all sorts of brilliant stuff and I haven't found out all about it yet, so I don't want anyone messing it about or endin' it before I've had the chance to find out about it.-Adam to DEATH & the 4 horsepeople of the Apocalypse."
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"Beauvoir was quiet, watching the Chief, taking in the gleam in his eye, the enthusiasm as he described what he'd found. Not the physical landscape, but the emotional. The intellectual.Many might have thought the Chief Inspector was a hunter. He tracked down killers. But Jean Guy knew he wasn't that. Chief Inspector Gama he was an explorer by nature. He was never happier than when he was pushing the boundaries, exploring the internal terrain. Areas even the person themselves hadn't explored. Had never examined. Probably because it was too scary."
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"For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere)."
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"Sometimes scientific discoveries are like that. Once people know something is possible, the pace of new findings increases. (Wylan)"
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"Go to where you do not know what you do not know. That is where you will find all your opportunities."
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"Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain."
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