Quotes for Discovery

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

Emanuel Steward

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

Stephen Hawking

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Jackson Pollock

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Arthur Koestler

My journey of self-discovery and self-acknowledgement began in my hometown of Los Angeles and has taken me through two state high school championships, the NCAA Final Four and the Elite Eight, and nine playoffs in 12 NBA seasons.

Jason Collins

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Frank Herbert

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

A. A. Milne

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Eden Phillpotts

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Mark Van Doren

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

Billy Corgan

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

Ivan Illich

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

Hanna Rosin

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

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Samuel Smiles

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Alexander Smith

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

Albert Pike

I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.

Larry Page

My big running discovery was around Stanley Park in Vancouver. Miss it. That's a six-mile loop. Now I smile when I get four miles done. Age is a beast.

Michael Weatherly

Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.

T. B. Joshua