Discovering Quotes - Page 19

• Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Spiritual, Art, Mean

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

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• I'm discovering there are innumerable ways to package, promote and sell my humor, as long as I reserve a little for myself to keep bouncing back and laughing off the rejections that are also part of the art of cartooning.

  Mark Evelyn Heath

  Art, Long, Laughing

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• The secret to 'doing it all' is not necessarily doing it all, but rather discovering which part of the 'all' He has given us to do and doing all of THAT.

  Jill Briscoe

  Secret, Given

  Jill Briscoe (2000). “Renewal on the Run: Encouragement for Wives Who Are Partners in Ministry”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• God makes it clear that his image bearers must live in dynamic communion with one another, thereby discovering and celebrating the good gift of one's own gender and that of the other. With a cross-shaped lens, we behold the beauty of man for woman and woman for man. None of us has ever lost that original design. No matter how broken we have become, we have never lost the potential to be good gifts for others!

  Andrew Comiskey

  Men, Broken, Design

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• I should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances – which I also haven’t seen before. I think the word is dignity. I wish you could meet these people. Maybe, hopefully, someday you will.

  Rachel Corrie

  Thinking, People, Wish

  "Rachel's war", www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.

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• The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world who, discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke the lines for not keeping straight as the only remedy for the unfortunate collisions which are occurring. Yet, in truth, there is no remedy except to throw over the axiom of parallels and to work out a non-Euclidean geometry.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Work Out, World, Lines

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.15, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources than all our future greed might exhaust, more opportunities than there will ever be entrepreneurs enough to exploit, and a peculiar kind of real estate that expands with development. Imagine a place where trespassers leave no footprints, where goods can be stolen infinite number of times and yet remain in the possession of their original owners, where business you never heard of can own the history of your personal affairs.

  John Perry Barlow

  Real, Opportunity, Numbers

  "Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World". Book by Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, March 2006.

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• What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want to die. That, too, was mine; and it also is to the good. For that experience resolved proportions and relationships for me as nothing else could have done; and it is surprising, approaching the final enlightenment, how little one really has to know or feel sure about.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Men, Dying, Finals

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.8, Island Press

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• I think there is something to being curious about your choices, but not wanting to kind of pierce the bubble of them, because it takes away from the act of discovering.

  Jodie Foster

  Thinking, Choices, Kind

  "Jennifer Lawrence". Interview with Jodie Foster, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.

  Chris Hayes

  Basketball, Thinking, Views

  "Chris Hayes: From 'Up' In The Morning To 'All In' At Night". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, listen.sdpb.org. March 27, 2013.

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• The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.

  Susan Stewart

  Loss, Thinking, Voice

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• It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do is to understand the meaning of life. But the majority of people who consider themselves to be educated are proud that they have reached such great height that they cease to care about the meaning of existence.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Meaning Of Life, Majority

  "A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, April 30.

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• I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.

  Peter Jackson

  Film, Process, Discovering Things

  "Comic-Con 2011: Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson Interview ADVENTURES OF TINTIN; Spielberg Says Jackson Is Scheduled to Shoot the Sequel". Press conference, collider.com. July 22, 2011.

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• An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him.

  John Dewey

  Fit, Individual, Given

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.93, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The soul doesn't distinguish between good and bad as much as between what is nutritious and what isn't. Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

  Thomas Moore

  Soul, World, Good And Bad

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• What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.

  Brian Cox

  Journey, Unexpected, Scientist

  BBC Radio4 "Big Bang Week" Interview, September 2008.

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• There is scarcely an occurrence in nature which, happening at a certain time, is not looked upon by some persons as a prognosticator either of good or evil.  The latter are in the greatest number, so much more ingenious are we in tormenting ourselves than in discovering reasons for enjoyment in the things that surround us.

  Charles Mackay

  Numbers, Evil, Reason

  Charles MacKay, Peter-Eric Philipp (2000). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”, p.312, Essential Library

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• The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of the plan of his work, and of the thought he intends to elaborate. As he proceeds, penetrating his material, laboring to express himself fitly, he lays a firmer grasp on his thought; he finds himself. So the human race is writing its story, finding itself, discovering its own underlying purpose, revising, recasting a tale pathetic often, yet none the less sublime.

  Felix Adler

  Writing, Race, Sublime

  Felix Adler (1914). “The Standard”

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• The process of discovering who we are and what we are here to do . . . is dependent . . . on our ability to stay positive and to find a silver lining in all events.

  James Redfield

  Wise, Stay Positive, Events

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• We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.

  Les Brown

  Keys, Challenges, Degrees

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• Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is any hope of progress in economics at all, it must be in using academic methods to solve the problems posed by Marx.

  Joan Robinson

  Law, Progress, Details

  Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.95, Springer

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• If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked.

  Bill Johnson

  Way, Rejoice, Ifs

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• In marriage it is never having my own way. It is rather discovering our way.

  Gary Chapman

  Way, Positive Marriage, My Own

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• The key to success is discovering your innate power and using it daily.

  Les Brown

  Keys, Key To Success, Innate

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• I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

  Matthew Fox

  Looking Forward, Fit, Process

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