Discovery Quotes

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Plato

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

Frank Herbert

The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.

Ira Erwin

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

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

A. A. Milne

I do not seek. I find.

Pablo Picasso

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't.

Henry Ford

Man's "progress" is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Daniel J. Boorstin

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Helen Keller

The things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Aristotle

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Francis Bacon

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

Les Brown

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

The Buddha

Learn to see, and then you'll know there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.

Carlos Castaneda