Quotes with discovery

  • No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.
  • The discovery of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the discovery of America almost 500 years earlier. In the case of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.
  • Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
  • It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
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  • Albert Pike 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
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • William James The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • James Joyce A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • James Joyce A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.
    The Integration of the Personality (1939)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Adam Weishaupt 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
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Arthur Keith Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • George Eliot Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ben Lovett Communion was born out of shared frustration in 2006. We felt that although the likes of MySpace and YouTube opened up the playing field for songwriters online, people's discovery of these new artists was only skin deep.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgi Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgi
     
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Michel Leiris Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - is essentially poetry.
    Michel Leiris
    French ethnologist, poet and writer (1901 - 1990)
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  • Will Durant Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Will Durant Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • John Keats Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Samuel Smiles He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • John A. Hannah Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
    John A. Hannah
     
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  • Bertrand Russell 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
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • A. R. Ammons If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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