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Quotes About Discovery

You don't know what you can do until you try.
~ Publilius Syrus
The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.
~ Carl Sagan
Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.
~ John Locke
Experiment is the sole source of truth.
~ Henri Poincare
As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.
~ Juan Goytisolo
Truth is buried, deep inside of men, sweep away each day.
~ Dawud Wharnsby Ali
They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.
~ Fanny Kemble
The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.
~ Pete Seeger
You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
~ Frederick Buechner
I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.
~ Deepak Chopra
Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it's in the music.
~ Paula Cole
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.
~ Edgar Quinet
If you fall, the truth will set you free. And when your heart can see just one thing in this life, we'll set out on the journey.
~ Gerry Rafferty
For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but the right.
~ William Cowper
If there is any truth to reincarnation, this must be my first trip through, 'cause I don't recognize anything.
~ Hoyt Axton
I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
~ Samuel Butler
We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth
~ Ian McEwan, Atonement
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
~ Clarence Day Jr.
Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.
~ Rivka Galchen
One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.
~ David Douglass
The voice of inner truth says, 'I embrace the unknown because it allows me to see new aspects of myself'.
~ Deepak Chopra
Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it
~ Blaise Pascal