Discovery (quotes)

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What is exploration and discovery?

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To explore is to search

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To discover is to find

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Exploration and discovery is the essence of living

  • The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovery that makes life worth the effort. Vijay Krishna
  • Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
  • To explore the unknown and the familiar, distant and near, and to record in details with the eyes of a child, any beauty, horror, irony, traces of utopia or Hell. Dan Eldo
  • We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started… and know the place for the first time. S. Eliot
  • Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. Frank Borman
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There is much to discover

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Discovery is one of the noblest of all delights

  • The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices. Frederick II, the Great
  • What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man’s breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea, to discover a great thought — an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plough had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find a way to make the lightning carry your messages. To be the first – – that is the idea. Mark Twain
  • Delight,  Life’s simple joys
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There is so much in life and ourselves that still remains to be discovered

  • I do not know what I appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself now and then by finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Sir Issac Newton
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Discover yourself

  • We discover in others what others hide from us, and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves. Marquis de Vauvenargues
  • You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. Barbra Streisand
  • I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision. Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Embarking on the journey to self-discovery involves your willingness to endure some perspiration as well as inspiration. Michael Bernard Beckwith
  • The major cause of stress is the inability of people to discover their real nature. Discover your gifts, follow them and you will never feel stressed. Pavel Stoyanov
  • You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves. Judith Hanson Lasater
  • You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself. Alan Alda
  • The Element is about discovering yourself, and you can’t do this if you’re trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can’t be yourself in a swarm. Sir Ken Robinson
  • One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. Blaise Pascal
  • I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself. Rabih Alameddine
  • A traveler am I, and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul. Kahlil Gibran
  • Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. Carol Pearson
  • I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it. Tori Amos
  • Self-knowledge,  Awaken to who you are
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Discover the treasure in others

  • When you look for the good in others, you discover the best in yourself. Martin Walsh
  • When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. William Arthur Ward
  • I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold. Jimmy Buffet
  • You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him discover what’s within himself. Galileo
  • Affirmation,  Encouragement
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Discover the treasure in you

  • To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness. Leo Buscaglia
  • We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. Mary Dunbar
  • Everything starts to be seen as a manifestation of spirit, including your humanness, with all of its strengths and weaknesses and all of its funny little quirks. You discover that your humanness is in no way separate from the divinity within you, which is what you actually are. Adyashanti
  • Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character.
  • We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other peoples’ models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. Shakti Gawain
  • To be authentic is literally to be your own author …, to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them. Warren G. Bennis
  • As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light. Susan Jeffers
  • The treasure within
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Discover your potential

  • There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become. Orison Swett Marden
  • The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line. Eileen Kennedy- Moore
  • The most exciting place to discover talent is in yourself. Ashleigh Brilliant
  • Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius. Robert Brault
  • The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. Brian Tracy
  • Potential
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Discover your passion

  • When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. Jean Shinoda Bolen
  • It’s actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value. Jonathan Ive
  • Passion
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Discover what you long for

  • Discovering what you really want saves you endless confusion and wasted energy. Stuart Wilde
  • It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had. Robert Brault
  • The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. Barbara Kingsolver
  • Every heart has a hidden treasure. A secret wish. A silent dream. A special goal to long for. Jill Wolf
  • Your soul’s desire are with you at birth like a hidden treasure chest of possibilities for you to discover as you grow and evolve into the person you were meant to be. Give voice to what you long for in the deepest place in your heart. Debbie Ford
  • Desire,  Know what you want
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Discover your purpose

  • Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. Buddha
  • The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is giving your gift away. David Viscott
  • To discover what your purpose is, all you need do is ask one question: “How is Life calling me to serve it?” Michael Jeffreys
  • The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. Oprah Winfrey
  • Our world is incomplete until each one of us discovers what moves us – our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act on it for ourselves. Richard J. Leider
  • Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose and then direct all your energies towards it. Robin Sharma
  • Getting on purpose in life – by going within and discovering that purpose is about loving unconditionally and serving, and making contact with what is there about us always – alters one’s worldview dramatically. Wayne Dyer
  • When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it. W. Clement Stone
  • Each of us has a gift, a talent to give back to the world. It may be small or large, it does not matter. The sacred song is our unique gift, our purpose, and each of us was born to discover and share it with the world. John Kehoe
  • It’s daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here. Luci Swindoll
  • Purpose,  Meaning, Clarity
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Discover your path

  • Your life can be a quest to discover your path and live from it. You accept that obstacles or tests contain powerful lessons and opportunities. You see that when you give yourself fully to life and the highest goal, as you do naturally when you are tested, a grace infuses you. Michael Ray
  • Each must discover his own way in life, and that way lies in his heart. Let him delve deeply into the depths of his being; his true centre is not far from there. N. Sri Ram
  • This is a lifelong journey—no matter how old you are, this process of finding what works and discovering your path gives your life meaning. Michael Ray
  • Follow your own path,  Life is a journey
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Discover what you are afraid of

  • If you can discover the fear behind the anger and dismantle it in the light of awareness, the anger dissipates. The next time you are angry, ask yourself, What am I afraid of? Alan Cohen
  • Fear is a question: What are you afraid of and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. Marilyn Ferguson
  • Fear
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Discover your emotions

  • When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings. Gail Carson Levine
  • The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. Edmund Burke
  • Feelings are sometimes difficult to discover, and often even more difficult to acknowledge. Yet hidden in your deepest feelings is your highest truth. Neale Donald Walsch
  • As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas – the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action. Audre Lorde
  • Emotion
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Discover what is possible

  • The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke
  • Learning is the discovery that something is possible. Fritz Perls
  • Possibility
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Discover joy

  • There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy. Joyce Grenfell
  • Joy
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Discover knowledge

  • I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge. Charles Baudelaire
  • The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. Frank Herbert
  • The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Knowledge
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Discover wisdom and truths

  • One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world. William Hazlitt
  • Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized. Osho
  • All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei
  • We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. Marcel Proust
  • Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations. Criss Jami
  • Wisdom,  Truth
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Discover opportunity

  • Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
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Discover wonder

  • If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder … he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in. Rachel Carson
  • Wonder,  Awe
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Discover new worlds and horizons

  • We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better. JoyBell C.
  • Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide
  • Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else. Tennessee Williams
  • Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone. Wendell Berry
  • Long ago, mapmakers sketched dragons on maps as a sign to sailors that they would be entering unknown territory at their own risk. Some sailors took this sign literally and were afraid to venture on.  Others saw the dragons as a sign of opportunity, a door to virgin territory.  Similarly, each of us has a mental map of the world complete with dragons.  Where does fear hold you back? What dragons can you slay?  Roger von Oech
  • Experience new things
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Discover your true nature through spiritual practices…

  • As you watch your mind, you discover yourself as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover yourself as the light behind the watcher. Nisargadatta Maharaj
  • The essence of spirituality is the search to know our true selves, to discover the real nature of consciousness. Peter Russell
  • The effort to discover an authentic self, to strip away layers of alienation and culturally imposed identity and find a soul in a clear, unimpeded communion with the sacred is consonant with spiritual quests throughout the ages. Cynthia Eller
  • Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don’t give rise to any thought, and discover who you are. Papaji
  • The world is our school for spiritual discovery. Paul Brunton
  • Each of us is here to discover our true Self that essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form… that we‘re not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences… that we’re spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences. Deepak Chopra
  • When you discover your essential nature and know who you really are, in that knowing itself is the ability to fulfil any dream you have… and the more you experience your true nature, the closer you are to the field of pure potentiality. Deepak Chopra
  • The journey by which we discover God is also the journey by which we discover, or uncover, our true self hidden in God. It is a journey that we all have to make. Esther de Waal
  • Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. Charles L. Wallis
  • We may explore the universe and find ourselves, or we may explore ourselves and find the universe. It matters not which of these paths we choose. Diana Robinson
  • Awaken to who you are
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… such as meditation

  • The purpose of meditation is discovering inner space and realising you are it. Eckhart Tolle
  • Silence is not a goal (repression) but a process of discovery. What happens when I have a thought?  What happens if I just allow it to be?  Adyashanti
  • Experience has convinced me that meditation is the most powerful spiritual technology for discovering our fundamental, enlightened state of being. Michael Bernard Beckwith
  • The self must know stillness before it can discover its true song. Ralph Brum
  • Meditation
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Discover by …

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Discover by making mistakes and daring to fail

  • Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on. Tom Greening
  • 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. Samuel Smiles
  • There are no mistakes….. only discoveries! Ellie Walsh
  • I have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing. Stephen De Staebler
  • A man’s errors are his portals of discovery. James Joyce
  • 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
  • From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. Sigmund Freud
  • The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. Humphrey Davy
  • An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery. Enrico Fermi
  • Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth. Benjamin Wiker
  • Life is an experiment in which you may fail or succeed. Explore more, expect least. Santosh Kalwar
  • Mistakes,  Failure,  Experimenting
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Discover by venturing off the beaten track

  • Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore all around it, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought. Alexander Graham Bell
  • If man had never charted a path into the unknown, he would never have discovered the known. Miriam R. G. Gould
  • Sometimes you need to get lost in order to discover anything. Katie Kacvinsky
  • Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried. Frank Tyger
  • We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. John Hope Franklin
  • Genius of any kind is the ability and willingness to leave the known world behind and explore new territory. Karla Mclaren
  • Go exploring. Explore ideas, places, and opinions. The inside of the echo chamber is where all the boring people hang out.  Then share what you discover.  And be generous when you do. Not everybody went exploring with you. Let them live vicariously through your adventures.  Jessica Hagy
  • Follow your own path
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Discover by collaborating with others

  • Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. Alexander Graham Bell
  • By mutual confidence and mutual aid – great deeds are done, and great discoveries made. Homer
  • Collaboration,  Cooperation,  Teamwork
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Discover by taking bold risks

  • Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide
  • You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go. Jim Rohn
  • No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. Isaac Newton
  • Face new challenges, seize new opportunities, test your resources against the unknown and in the process, discover your own unique potential. John Amatt
  • Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient that fuels daring. Grace Lichtenstein
  • Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter for discovery and adventure, rather than fear. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
  • Risk taking,  Boldness,  Courage
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Discover through challenges

  • Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They’re what make the instrument stretch- what make you go beyond the norm.  Cicely Tyson
  • Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are. Allen K. Chalmers
  • Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. Bernice Johnson
  • Challenges
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Discover by being aware and paying attention

  • Discover the extraordinary in the ordinary by bringing awareness to the moment. Bring consciousness into even the most simple actions. Eckhart Tolle
  • If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. Isaac Newton
  • God is always present and waiting to be discovered, now in the present moment, precisely where we are and in what we are doing. Harry A. Williams
  • Awareness,  Attention,  Living consciously,  Mindfulness
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Discover by loving

  • It is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth. Mitsugi Saotome
  • When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. Pema Chodron
  • Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. Alexander Smith
  • To love is to commune with another person and to discover in him or her a divine spark. Paulo Coelho
  • Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it. A. Bucchianeri
  • Love
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Discover by playing

  • You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato
  • Life is playfulness… We need to play so that we can rediscover the magic all around us. Flora Colao
  • Play
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Discover by questioning

  • The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts. Bryant McGill
  • There is no harm in doubt and scepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made. Richard Feynman
  • Man’s “progress” is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning. Antoine de Saint- Exupery
  • Open-mindedness,  Questions
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Discover by serving others

  • All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don’t discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others. Danny Thomas
  • The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Mahatma Gandhi
  • Service,  Making a difference
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Discover by reading

  • From your parents, you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings. Helen Hayes
  • That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves. Lloyd Alexander
  • Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map. Stephen King
  • Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart. Salman Rushdie
  • To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries. A C Grayling
  • Reading
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Discover by writing

  • Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
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Discover by looking at things differently

  • The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
  • The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently. Ira Erwin
  • The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. Sir William Lawrence Bragg
  • Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert von Szent-Gyorgy
  • Explore new ideas,  Assumptions,  Thinking,  Originality
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Discover by following scientific findings

  • The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists, was science itself. Jacob Bronowski
  • The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. Albert Einstein
  • New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure. Herbert Hoover
  • Science
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Discover through …

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Discover through the power of imagination and creativity

  • It is … through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth. Madeleine L’Engle
  • When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Albert Einstein
  • No one ever discovered anything new by colouring inside the lines. Thomas Vasquez
  • Creativity is an act of self-discovery. Sebastian Esteverena
  • Creativity is the process of discovering something you did not start out with. Collingwood
  • Imagination,  Creativity
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Discover through intuition

  • The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you, and you don’t know how or why. Albert Einstein
  • I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. Albert Einstein
  • It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover. Henri Poincare
  • Intuition
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Discover through new experiences

  • In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. Ansel Adams
  • Explore the unknown. Be open to new experiences. Wayne Dyer
  • Embrace new experiences
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Discover through travel

  • Traveling has less to do with seeing things, as it does with experiencing them. It has less to do with discovering something, as it does with discovering yourself.  In your travels you won’t find all the answers, you will find lots of questions you would otherwise have never thought to ask.  Marc and Angel Chernoff
  • The wise man travels to discover himself. James Russell Lowell
  • Travel
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Discover through humour

  • There is a close relationship between the “haha of humour and the “aha” of discovery. Roger von Oech
  • Humour
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Final thoughts

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Some of the greatest discoveries you can make

  • The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. William James
  • Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. Alan Watts
  • 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
  • I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it’s only a choice of attitude. Judith M. Knowlton
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Life is not just about discovering yourself, but creating yourself

  • Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shore
  • Life is a creative process, not a journey of discovery or a school of learning. You’re not discovering yourself, but recreating yourself. So don’t try and figure out who you are, but establish who you want to be. You create your reality every minute, probably without realizing it. You can be, do, and have whatever you can imagine. Didn’t I say you were gods? Neale Donald Walsch
  • Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one’s self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • Life is more about creation than discovery
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Great discoveries are usually obvious in hindsight

  • The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. Arthur Koestler
  • The great discoveries are usually obvious. Philip Crosby
  • All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei
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On a lighter note

  • A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they’re complex. S.N. Behrman
  • Adolescence is that time of life when you discover your ability to be depressed. Solomon Short
  • An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. Aldous Huxley
  • Appendix: A portion of a book for which nobody yet has discovered any use.
  • Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen — and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert Schenz-  Gyorgyi
  • Educated Man: One who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answers.
  • Every scientific truth goes through three states: first people say it conflicts with the Bible; next they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it. Louis Agassiz
  • Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be. Lionel Barrymore
  • I have discovered that all human evil comes from this – man’s being unable to sit still in a room. Blaise Pascal
  • I have made an important discovery… that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication. Oscar Wilde
  • I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it. Sally Brown
  • It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
  • It’s only when the tide goes out that you discover who’s been swimming naked. Warren Buffett
  • It’s well-known that men and women are different but it keeps being rediscovered with great excitement. Ashleigh Brilliant
  • Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it. George Carlin
  • Life is a game the object of which is to discover the object of the game. Sanders’ Rumination
  • Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it. Candace Bushnell
  • Modesty: Being comfortable that others will soon discover your greatness.
  • One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries. A. Milne
  • Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can’t remember what they are. Matt Lauer
  • The closer I get to my goal, the greater my chance of discovering what it is. Ashleigh Brilliant
  • The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars. Benjamin Franklin, circa 1700s
  • The most exciting phrase to hear in science the one that heralds new discoveries is not …Eureka!’ but  …That’s funny    Isaac Asimov
  • The most exciting place to discover talent is in yourself. Ashleigh Brilliant
  • There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. Douglas Adams
  • We don’t know who first discovered water, but we can be sure that it wasn’t a fish.
  • When science discovers the centre of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it. Bernard Baily
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