Discovery Quotes - Page 7

• Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

  Lawrence Block

  Inspirational, Destiny, Serendipity

  "Silver Linings: Meditations on Finding Joy and Beauty in Unexpected Places". Book by Mina Parker, 1998.

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

  Thomas Szasz

  Life, Wisdom, Creating

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

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• The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

  Mark Van Doren

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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• I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Sassy, Finding Yourself

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.59, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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  As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Successful, Helping Others

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• 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

  Life, Happiness, Gratitude

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• It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

  Lucille Ball

  Happiness, Happy, Spring

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• The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

  John Dewey

  Spiritual, Choices Made, Self

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.351, Sheba Blake Publishing

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  Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

  James Joyce

  Inspiring, Encouraging, Mistake

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• We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Taught Us, Independence

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• Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Truth, Thinking

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• The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.

  Louis de Broglie

  Knowledge, Limits, States

  "Causality and Chance in Modern Physics". Foreword of book by David Bohm, p.10, 1984.

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• Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Life, Light, Games

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.114, Oxford University Press

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• I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian.

  Raimon Panikkar

  Christian, Religious, Buddhist

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• Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.

  Jim Rohn

  Leadership, People, Evil

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 22, 2015

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• To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

  Shane Koyczan

  Average, Deep Thought, Firsts

  Twitter post from Aug 29, 2013

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• Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa and on a subatomic level, matter does not exist with certainty in definite places, but rather shows 'tendencies' to exist. Quantum physics is beginning to realise that the Universe appears to be a dynamic web of interconnected and inseparable energy patterns. If the universe is indeed composed of such a web, there is logically no such thing as a part. This implies we are not separated parts of a whole but rather we are the Whole.

  Barbara Brennan

  Past, Experience, Doe

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• With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know even less of the most important discovery of all – Love. Only love can accept our differences as we journey through life. And only love can allow space for our growth.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Love, Life, Acceptance

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• If you want to be a photographer, first leave home

  Steve McCurry

  Funny, Photography, Home

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• Revival occurs as a group of people who, on the whole, think they already know the gospel discover they do not really or fully know it, and by embracing the gospel they cross over into living faith.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Knowledge, Thinking

  "Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City".

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• The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Inspirational, Dream, Science

  Twitter post from Aug 04, 2012

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• The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching.

  Loren Cunningham

  God, Over You, Taken For Granted

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• When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Life, Freedom, Real

  "Forgiveness: You Can’t Have It Both Ways" by Maria Mayo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end,
  full of new paths to discover,
  where mystery remains eternal

  Pierre Boulez

  Music, Labyrinth, Path

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