Discovery Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

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• You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Change, Positive

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 12, 2014

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• They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Nature, Travel

  'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 7, sect. 5

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• One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Knowledge, Acceptance

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

  Aldous Huxley

  Knowledge, Emotional, Self

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• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wise, Dream

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

  Gus Grissom

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  "Gemini : A Personal Account of Man's Venture Into Space". Book by Virgil I. Grissom, 1968.

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• Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

  Brad Warner

  Disappointment, Reality, Brain

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.76, New World Library

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• My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Good Morning, Father, Law

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• Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

  Max Planck

  Knowledge, Science, Views

  Max Planck (1932). “Where is Science Going?”

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• Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  People, Paper, Found

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• It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Unsolved Problems, Exciting, Complexes

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

  Enrico Fermi

  Predictions, Experiments

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• Ya know it's funny, what's happening to us. Our lives have become digital. Our friends, now virtual. And, anything you could ever wanna know is just a click away. Experiencing the world through second hand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it. We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self-discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.

  Travis Rice

  Funny, Life, Motivational

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• Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Self

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• Architecture is not created, it is discovered – the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend them.

  Glenn Murcutt

  Creativity, Hands, Mind

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• To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that gladdens the heart.

  Carl Wilhelm Scheele

  Happy, Heart, Science

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Happy, People

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Government, America, Political

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• And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Inspirational, Happiness, Mean

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• The Bible says that the devil is like a roaring lion (1 Peter 5:8). He comes in the darkness, and tries to frighten the children of God with his mighty roar. But when you switch on the light of the Word of God, you discover that there is no lion. There is only a mouse with a microphone! The devil is an imposter. Got it?

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Bible, God, Christian

  Reinhard Bonnke (2015). “Daily Fire Devotional: 365 Days In God’s Word”, p.314, Whitaker House

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• Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Reading, Book

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