“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is Curiosity.”— Edmund Burke, amazon.com
“Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there’s nothing there, how can anything go wrong?”— Richard Brautigan, articles.baltimoresun.com
“All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever fell in love with them.”— Harry Mulisch, amazon.com
“At the end of the day, life’s about realising one’s human potential. I don’t know if I’ve realised mine, but I’ve certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.”— Linton Kwesi Johnson, facebook.com
“He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. D…”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”— A. A. Milne, amazon.com
“You write a poem to discover what you’re thinking, feeling, where the truth is. You don’t begin by saying, now this is the truth.”— Maxine Kumin, amazon.com
“I don’t understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.”— Craig Silvey, amazon.com
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”— Albert Schweitzer, goodreads.com
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”— William James, amazon.com
“I wandered through the cosmos in search of the treasure but found it within me.”— Sant Namdev, books.google.com.ph
“I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”— Amy Sedaris, amazon.com
“The term fell in love is apt, because it implies there is pain in the discovery. I didn’t land softly in love.”— N.B. Roberts, amazon.com
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes”— Marcel Proust, goodreads.com
“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”— Kristin Hannah, amazon.com
“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, haydenplanetarium.org