Discovery Quotes - Page 2

• An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

  John F. Kennedy

  Artist, Discipline, Life Is

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• We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted.

  Robert Henri

  States, Clear

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• Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces

  Stefan Zweig

  Hero, Conquer The World, Intellectual

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• To find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like Alice, you see. You take too much of one thing and you get too big, then you take too much of another and you get too small. You've got to find your own doorway into things.

  Paula Rego

  Doors, Doorways, Too Much

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• A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Views, Principles, Renewal

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• If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Dream, America, Generations

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.98, Verso

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• In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from a biological supply house. It's a unique discovery, a unique specimen.

  Donald Johanson

  Unique, Finding The One, Order

  "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again.

  Will Smith

  Squirrels, Acorns, Blind

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• I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with something.

  Brad Leithauser

  Flower, Optimistic, May

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• All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Reality, Artistic, Term

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• Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery?

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Use, Has Beens

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• I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Nothing New

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• Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Australia, Copper, South

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.49, Wakefield Press

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• Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Book, Elimination, Ends

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• I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Thinking, Encounters, Language

  "I still haven't written the best I can" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.

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• For me art is a continuous discovery into reality, an exploration of visual data which has been going on for centuries, each artist contributing to the next generation's advancement. I wanted to go a step further and extend the boundaries.

  Audrey Flack

  Art, Reality, Data

  Audrey Flack, Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Patricia Hills, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery (1992). “Breaking the rules: Audrey Flack, a retrospective 1950-1990”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.

  Pablo Picasso

  Past, Giving, Way

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• For discovering one's true inner nature, I think one should try to take out some time, with quiet and relaxation, to think more inwardly and to investigate the inner world. That may help.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Relaxation, Trying

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.41, Penguin Books India

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• There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Writing, Men, Literature

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.413, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

  Arthur Keith

  Agriculture, Firsts, Steps

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

  Henry Taube

  Real, Appreciate, Joy

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• In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

  Will Durant

  Stress, Order, Political

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• My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.

  Sarah Palin

  Journey, Citizens, Transformation

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.

  Christopher Darden

  Writing, School, Play

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• Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

  Max Lerner

  Fire, Glowing, Civilization

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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