Quotes About Discovery

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.

A man who limits his interests limits his life.

If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.

A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.

Darius was clearly of the opinion That the air is also man's dominion, And that, with paddle or fins or pinion, We soon or late Shall navigate The azure, as now we sail the sea.

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.

Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.

Where oil is first found is in the minds of men

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.

For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds.

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.

The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.