Discovery Quotes

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Henry Miller

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

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Friedrich von Schiller

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Ralph W. Sockman

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I am a part of all that I have met.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

Henry David Thoreau

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

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

Plato