Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

Jeanette Winterson

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

Jeff Bezos

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Georges Cuvier

Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

George Will

The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.

Jerry Gillies

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

Honor Harger

The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer Karl Jansky in 1933.

Frederick Buechner

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

George Eliot

and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.

Francis Bacon

Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

Francis Bacon

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

If he can discover some kind of service on top of word processing that helps people work with one another over the Web, then he may be on to something.

And when they visit the mall, they may discover downtown.

Jerome Charyn

Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.

First we have to prove that it will work in humans, ... If that happens, then I would estimate that it will likely be a five-year process to turn the discovery into something people can use.

Everything you see was discovered by our divers. A lot of the items displayed are not identified because they've petrified.

Patrick White

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

I started to spend more time in the drawing and painting studio course. I thought it would be smart to get my teaching certificate, and upon taking some classes, I discovered I had a passion for teaching.

E. B. White

I started working for the Free-Lance Star in Fredericksburg, and they discovered that I could write.

Andy Williams

I've discovered that there's another way of living that I have never known. Things have changed.

Robert Smith

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.

Mary E. Pearson

I've discovered I love the vast landscape a series offers. I tend to write long anyway, so, it turns out, series gives me the perfect vehicle for writing 'large' stories.

We smelled fumes on the first and second floors. I opened the garage and discovered the bodies. They were nude.

Billy Graham

It (the Bible) has never bowed its head before the discoveries of science.

Barry Long

Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment.

Stephen Jay Gould

[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a shiny new space-age machine for penetrating previously inaccessible worlds.

Dan Hill

You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber.

We've got 200 years' worth of scientific discovery and equipment locked away in the basement. All those items - around 6,000 objects - will be put on display.

Will Rogers

Wrigley was the first man to discover that American jaws must wag; so why not give them something to wag against.

John Garfield

To my surprise, I discovered that I could act, and I liked it even better than boxing.

We're very pleased and looking forward to the discovery.

Charles Kennedy

As I spread my wings in politics, I discovered many Thatcher voters down south who were the same kind of people who loathed her in Scotland. They were puzzled by the Scots' antipathy, given the Falklands war and the strong militaristic history of the Highlands and elsewhere.

Jackie Robinson

discover the truth of today, and perhaps find the greatness of tomorrow.