Quotes About Discovery

The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

I'm glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I'm glad many people read my book and found out the truth.

He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

[Science is] an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.

In doubting we come to inquiry; by inquiry we perceive the truth.

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is to fear the possibility of truth.

Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.

If it's the truth you seek, then darling love you'll find.

You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.

Sometimes people can surprise you. Sometimes they have a great capacity to hear the truth.

Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.

I don't claim to have found the Truth, but I know it has found me.

At whatever age you find the truth, that will be your real birth year! That's why man can be born even at the age of eighty!

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.

The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.