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Quotes About Discovery

You wonder and you wonder until you wander out into Infinity, where - if it is to be found anywhere - Truth really exists.
~ Marita Bonner
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
~ Blaise Pascal
Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.
~ Keith Miller
Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.
~ Charles Bradlaugh
Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
~ Democritus
All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
~ Willard F. Libby
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.
~ John Herschel
My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.
~ Isadora Duncan
Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It was the first time I realized that absolute reality could be so much more fun than fantasy.
~ Lindsay Lohan
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, Horseradish
I am entering into the truth, into nature.
~ Paul Gauguin
Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
To find is the thing.
~ Pablo Picasso
Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.
~ Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
~ Claude Bernard
Truth is a pathless land.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
[Science is] the literature of truth.
~ Josh Billings
Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.
~ Ann Druyan
I don't know who I am, to tell you the truth.
~ John C. Reilly
The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best it can to the new knowledge.
~ Percy Williams Bridgman
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.
~ Virginia Woolf