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Quotes About Discovery

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.
~ Konrad Lorenz, On Aggression
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
~ Albert Camus
I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
~ Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
~ Jules Verne
I'm constantly searching for the truth amidst a sea of confusion and uncertainty.
~ Ryan Hall
There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.
~ Francois Viete
All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.
~ Peter Watts
...just being ordinary in and of itself is and expression of divinity; the truth of one's real self can be discovered through the pathway of everyday life.
~ David Hawkins
Truth is a seed hidden in the days until watered by what life brings us.
~ Mark Nepo
In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.
~ Italo Calvino
I just think that I'm a person who's trying to find the truth and express it as I, you know, get the opportunity.
~ Jon Voight
Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Extras
The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.
~ Luther Burbank
The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.
~ Neil Gaiman
All I want is to know the truth, to know and experience God. I'm a searcher, that's what I'm all about.
~ Elvis Presley
Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.
~ Rene Descartes
Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.
~ George Lakoff
There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.
~ Mary McCarthy