Quotes About Discovery

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement".

Progress through cautious, well founded experiments.

If you keep a record of all your failures you will soon have a list of everything which cannot be done.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

She could not then know that, even for the squarest peg, the right hole may ultimately be found

He portrays the labours of the etymologist in whimsical terms: 'In search of the progenitors of our speech, we may wander from the tropick to the frozen zone, and find some in the valleys of Palestine, and some upon the rocks of Norway'. Johnson's

Of the approximately 27,000 words identified in the OED as having first been used between 1250 and 1450, more than a fifth have French origins, and more than three-quarters of these are nouns.43 About half of all words in common use are nouns, and the introduction of new nouns – so many of them material – marks the discovery of new things, new experiences, new attitudes. Nouns

Many believers are silent concerning Christ, worried that they may not know enough or that they will say the wrong thing about Christ. However, the Lord can use any believer's speaking. What any believer can say for sure with one hundred percent accuracy is, 'I have found Him and 'come and see.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

The world is my lobster.

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

The place where most people aren't is where the real thing is.

It's the person who tells you they listen to a lot of different music with an almost resigned sigh of futility that you want to pay attention to because they know that at best, they'll only hear a small part of a tiny drop in the great ocean of music.

He that hath found some fledg'd bird's nest, may know At first sight, if the bird be flown; But what fair well or grove he sings in now, That is to him unknown

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

True Tenacity is in the Uncovering of the Purpose of Existence Rather than in the Pursuit of Existence.