Quotes 101 till 120 of 143.
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To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.
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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.
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Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
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Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.
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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
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We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.
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We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.
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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.
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We read advertisements to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.
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We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
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What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men (1903) -
When I get to be a man! Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: When I was a boy! It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.
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When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
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