Discovering Quotes - page 2

Every instrument that has been designed to be sensitive enough to detect weak light has always ended up discovering that the same thing: light is made of particles. (Richard Feynman)
The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought. View quote
Hermann von Helmholtz
I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process. View quote
Shelby Foote
Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
I did have a love for literature that overpowered my hatred of the people who taught it, and I think because I had no respect for the teachers, their attitude didn't poison the writing that I was discovering for myself. View quote
Craig Ferguson
[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay. View quote
Peter Guthrie Tait
Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential. View quote
Joshua Waitzkin
An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution -- then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise. View quote
Aldous Huxley
It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me.... (J. R. R. Tolkien)
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. View quote
John Barrymore
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. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek, therefore, not to find out Who You Are, seek to determine Who You Want to Be. View quote
Neale Donald Walsch
I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. the only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It's like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it's there and keep falling in. After a while, it's still there, but you learn to walk round it. View quote
Rachel Joyce
Bring a vampire around, people start discovering religion. View quote
Richard Laymon
It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing. View quote
Rob Sheffield
What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image. View quote
Ted Dekker
We are discovering that natural philosophy needs bonds of sympathy as well as precision of intellect. View quote
Theodore Roszak
Normally we empower our demons by believing they are real and strong in themselves and have the power to destroy us. As we fight against them, they get stronger. But when we acknowledge them by discovering what they really need, and nurture them, our demons release their hold, and we find that they actually do not have power over us. By nurturing the shadow elements of our being with infinite generosity, we can access the state of luminous awareness and undermine ego. By feeding the demons, we resolve conflict and duality, finding our way to unity. View quote
Tsultrim Allione
Whatever inspires you is an aspect of yourself. Any desire of the heart exists to support you in discovering and manifesting it. If you have an aspiration to be something, it is because you have the potential to manifest the quality you are seeing and the behavior that this quality will bring forth. (Debbie Ford)
having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life. View quote
David Levithan
Being clear of clutter is one of the greatest aids I know to discovering and manifesting the life you want. View quote
Karen Kingston
For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the runaway success was like suddenly discovering that the car was a Ferrari and the accelerator pedal was Krazy Glued to the floorboard. View quote
Michael Azerrad
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. View quote
D. Elton Trueblood