(562 quotes found)
“I invent nothing, I rediscover.”
Auguste Rodin
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
Will Durant
“Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?”
Virginia Woolf
“It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm”
Mary Henle
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can change his life by changing his attitude of mind”
William James
“The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.”
Paul Valery
“By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made”
Homer
“Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery”
Helen Hays
“Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul.”
Alexander Chase
“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess”
Isaac Newton
