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• In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.

  Armstrong Williams

  Beautiful, Eye, Achieve

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• The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Peace, Philosophy, Real

  "Philosophical Investigations". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, § 133, 1953.

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• NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

  Hanna Rosin

  Adventure, Names, Long

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• What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Graduation, Learning, School

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.9, Princeton University Press

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• The map is not the territory.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Journey

  Science and Sanity (1933).

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• No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

  Thomas Mann

  Men, Political, Remains

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• He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?

  John Steinbeck

  Reality, Men, Saws

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.46, Penguin

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• For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

  Charles Bukowski

  Atheist, Educational, War

  "The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture". Life Magazine, December 1988.

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• We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Water, Fishes, Knows

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• First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

  Douglas Adams

  Technology, Typewriters, Numbers

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• You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

  Gertrude Stein

  Writing, Thinking, Paper

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• Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discovery is still taking place in our time.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Dream, Men, America

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.76, Canongate Books

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• Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

  Alice Walker

  Self, Joy, Mystery

  Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

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• There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Joy, Happy Accidents

  H.L. Mencken (1917). “A book of prefaces”, p.85, Рипол Классик

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• From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Music, Education, Children

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me

  Anais Nin

  Evil, Want, My Own

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• Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.

  Eric Foner

  Past, Journey, Study

  Eric Foner (2003). “Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World”, p.14, Macmillan

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• It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

  Albert Einstein

  Music, Perception, Intuition

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• Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.

  Theodor Adorno

  Self, Individual, Made

  Theodor W. Adorno (2015). “Introduction to Sociology”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons

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• ...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Pride, Gestalt, Ifs

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• [A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery.

  Isaac Asimov

  Light, Illumination, Connections

  Isaac Asimov (1992). “Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos”, Plume Books

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• It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

  Ayn Rand

  Venture, Opinion, Embarrassing

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.75, Hamilton Books

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• later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Land, Water, Sailing

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• The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That's how life is most of the time, isn't it? You know where you are and where you hope to wind up. It's the getting there that's challenging.

  Anna Quindlen

  Writing, Journey, Wind

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• Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, People, Trying

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.16, Anchor

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