The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me
Sir Isaac Newton
Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Sometimes the best way to figure out who you are is to get to that place where you don't have to be anything else.
Unknown
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Thornton Wilder
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
William Arthur Ward
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust