145 Discovered Quotes

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. — Galileo Galilei

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. - Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. — Henry David Thoreau

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go. — Langston Hughes

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. — Deepak Chopra

By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding. — Robert Hooke

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. — Andre Gide

Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody. — Dwight L. Moody

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. — William Arthur Ward

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after. — Henry David Thoreau

If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Short Discovered Quotes

  • A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. — Charles Darwin
  • One doesn't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore. — Andre Gide
  • Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it. — Alicia Keys
  • In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love. — Cesar Chavez
  • Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. — Jackson Pollock
  • Discover real peace and harmony within yourself, and naturally this will overflow to benefit others. — S. N. Goenka
  • There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about. — Margaret J. Wheatley
  • The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. — Napoleon Hill
  • Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. — Michelangelo

Discovered Image Quotes

Discovered quote Sometimes we are tested. Not to show our weaknesses, but to discover our strengths.
Sometimes we are tested. Not to show our weaknesses, but to discover our strengths.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. - Aldous Huxley quote

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. — Aldous Huxley

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. - Pearl S. Buck quote

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. — Pearl S. Buck

We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard. - Douglas Mawson quote

We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard. — Douglas Mawson

Life’s a journey. It’s a journey about discovering limits. - Larry Ellison quote

Life’s a journey. It’s a journey about discovering limits. — Larry Ellison

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching. - Loren Cunningham quote

The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching. — Loren Cunningham

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. - Lewis B. Smedes quote

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. — Lewis B. Smedes

In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water. - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek quote

In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water. — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Steampunk is what happens when goths discover brown - Cherie Priest quote

Steampunk is what happens when goths discover brown — Cherie Priest

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. - Bill Watterson quote

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. — Bill Watterson

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. - Barbra Streisand quote

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. — Barbra Streisand

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi quote

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Discovered quote Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Discovering New Things Quotes

What's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the universe, about ourselves, about our bodies, about diseases, about the possibilities of the future. It's amazing. — Joe Rogan

This is another aspect of the world view that we never have the final word—and that’s a good thing. That’s optimistic because it means we can keep improving, we can keep making progress, and we can keep discovering new things. There is no end of science. — Naval Ravikant

When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time. — Arthur Rubinstein

Discovered quote In the midst of change we often discover wings we never knew we had.
In the midst of change we often discover wings we never knew we had.

Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things which will be discovered by the present generation of artists. — Allan Kaprow

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. — Sir William Bragg

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. — William Lawrence Bragg

Discovered quote Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands before them. They seem to be as inexhaustible and unpredictable as real human beings. — Ernst Gombrich

Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before. — Paulo Coelho

We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things. — Hal Hartley

I really like to discover a new culture, a new country, a new rhythm of living. I really, really like that. I think that's the most enriching thing, for my nature, because I like the psychology of people. — Audrey Tautou

Discovering Life Quotes

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

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself. — Bernard Meltzer

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. — Bernice Johnson Reagon

Discovered quote When you look for the good in others, you discover the best in yourself.
When you look for the good in others, you discover the best in yourself.

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold. — Jimmy Buffett

Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet. — James Patterson

The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge. — Howard Thurman

Discovered quote Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the one
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw of the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in you sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that. — Matt Chandler

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work. — Henri Nouwen

Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life. — Michelangelo

When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other. — Margaret J. Wheatley

How You Look At Things Quotes

If you are going to do TPS you must do it all the way. You also need to change the way you think. You need to change how you look at things. — Taiichi Ohno

Adam didn't look at him when he said, finally, "It doesn't matter how you say it. It's what you wanted, in the end. All your things in one place, all under your roof. Everything you own right where you can see. — Maggie Stiefvater

The one thing about Billie is he will snap and rip your head off if you point anything out at all other than how beautiful he is and how nice he looks today. — Tre Cool

Discovered quote Your why must be greater than your fear, only then you will step outside your comfort zone.
Your why must be greater than your fear, only then you will step outside your comfort zone.

A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in the arts enriches you. — Alicia Alonso

Everything hinges on how you look at things — Henry Miller

Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at things . . . Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative. — Osho

Discovered quote We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly. — Thomas Jefferson

Look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry themselves, how can you? You can wear some of the weirdest things and be cool. If you believe in it, that's what makes it cool. — Andre Benjamin

Fatherhood means a great deal to me. I love it. To me, there aint nothing better, because your kids keep it real with you. When you think things are bad, you look at them and they show you how things could be all right, and it's all worth it. — Martin Lawrence

And style, by the way, is a very important thing. It is like your signature, your handwriting or it is something that you develop that is your way of presenting yourself and also your way of looking at what art - of how to make art. — Robert Barry

What You See Is What You See Quotes

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see. — Henry David Thoreau

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. — Saint Augustine

Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction. — John of the Cross

Discovered quote Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.
Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.

You ask me 'What’s the the greatest act of faith?' To me is to look in the mirror of God’s word, and see all my faults, all my sin, all my shortcomings and to believe that God loves me exactly as he says he does. — Paul Washer

I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect. — C. S. Lewis

God takes what the enemy meant for your bad and turns it for your good! It wasn't a set back but a set up! Wait and see what God is getting ready to do for you! — Paula White

Discovered quote People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.
People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.

Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering - you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself. — Baal Shem Tov

Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet. — Leonardo da Vinci

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls. — John Coltrane

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly. — Richard Bach

Discovering Something Quotes

Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it. — Josemaria Escriva

If I give someone a horsetail he will have no difficulty making a photographic enlargement of it - anyone can do that. But to observe it, to notice and discover its forms, is something that only a few are capable of. — Karl Blossfeldt

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows. — Paulo Coelho

Discovered quote Friendship is a buried treasure waiting to be discovered.
Friendship is a buried treasure waiting to be discovered.

Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game. — Charlotte Ross

Ballet found me. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced, my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me. — Misty Copeland

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. — Jean Shinoda Bolen

But if you believe that knowledge comes through creativity, then any child born tomorrow could be the next Einstein or Feynman. They could discover something that will change the world forever with creativity that has nonlinear outputs and effects. — Naval Ravikant

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. — Carl Jung

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

The significance and joy in my science comes in those occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, 'So that's how God did it.' My goal is to understand a little corner of God's plan. — Henry F. Schaefer, III

Discovering Something New Quotes

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable. — Helen Gahagan

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new. — Carly Simon

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented. — Eric Hoffer

Write your future in pencil…Be prepared. Plan for the future. But also be ready to pivot if a new opportunity comes your way, or if you discover something that was not part of the master plan– makes your heart sing and your mind buzz with possibilities. — Michele Norris

To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. — Alan Watts

There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you start to discover new ways of making it right. — Jim Rohn

When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what you know, discover something new. — Marie Howe

With God, life is eternal-both in quality and length. There is no joy comparable to the joy of discovering something new from God, about God. If the continuing life is a life of joy, we will go on discovering, learning. — Eugenia Price

Disruptors don't have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries. — Jay Samit

Perhaps the future of the world would be in better hands if we forgot about discovering something new and concentrated on recovering our past. — Marlo Morgan

New Discoveries Quotes

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

We should come home from adventures and perils and discoveries with new experiences and character. — Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement. — Lord Kelvin

Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal — Pierre Boulez

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov

The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover. — Louis de Broglie

To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized — Simone de Beauvoir

At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion. — Johannes Stark

We can do more than what we think. It’s a belief system that I have adopted and it has become my motto. There is more than meets the eye and unless you are willing to experience new things, you’ll never realize your full potential. — Wim Hof

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. — Marie Curie

Experiencing Things Quotes

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for. — Oscar Wilde

If you are experiencing confusion, pain, and suffering, it may be that God is working things out for you in his own way. It is most often the sovereign work of our God unfolding a master plan known only to him. — David Wilkerson

Everything is falling together perfectly, even though it looks as if some things are falling apart. Trust in the process you are now experiencing. — Neale Donald Walsch

The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels. — Paul Bowles

This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident. — Martin Luther

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen. — Vincent Van Gogh

The most important things in life need to be experienced, in order to be learned. You may well intellectually get them. But you only truly understand them through experience. — Rangan Chatterjee

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic. — Christina Ricci

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author. — John Keats

Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the world. You're strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world. — David Lynch

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain

The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction. — Maria Montessori

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time. — Isaac Newton

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. — Marcel Proust

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves. — Osho

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did. — Alexander Fleming

When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking. — Gabrielle Roth

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God — Soren Kierkegaard

We have only to see a few letters of the alphabet spelling our name in the sand to recognize at once the work of an intelligent agent. How much more likely, then is the existence of an intelligent Creator behind human DNA, the colossal biological database that contains no fewer than 3.5 billion "letters the longest "word" yet discovered?" — John Lennox

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. — Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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