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Quotes About Discovery

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
~ James Russell Lowell
It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.
~ James Smithson
I was a straight man long before I knew what it was called. I was just the boring one.
~ Jason Sudeikis
There is no perfect man! I think I'm meant to have many soulmates.
~ Jessica Simpson
With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true.
~ John Henrik Clarke
Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth
~ John Masefield
That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.
~ John Ruskin
Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.
~ John Steinbeck
The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
~ Pierre Trudeau
I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom came in contact with Elite Amsterdam; then I started modeling.
~ Maud Welzen
Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.
~ Cathy Guisewite
Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A mom and dad found an S&M magazine under their 10-year-old son's bed, and the dad said, 'Well, we sure can't spank him.'
~ Dana Carvey
Well I looked in my moms closet and saw what I was getting for Christmas, an ultravibe pleasure 2000.
~ Trey Parker
The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.
~ Deborah Norville
Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to I just found out my mom does more dope than I do
~ Eminem
My mom loved the book [My beloved world] and she said to me, 'I never knew you had done so much.'
~ Sonia Sotomayor