The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.
Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.
Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking.
We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself re-creates them. They are the marks of unity in variety; and in the instant when the mind seizes this for itself, in art or in science, the heart misses a beat.
The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child's world.
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.
You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.
I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.
A library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them.
At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.
Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.
I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.
People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.
Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.
We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.
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