Quotes About Discovery

To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks.

I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge.

...the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.

Out of Africa, there is always something new.

I'm tired of entirely new things, " Tremaine said. "I don't understand most of the old things yet.

Knowledge has a materiality, not unlike the materiality of a ladder, that can be used to gain access to places and worlds that were previously unimaginable.

Saying 'I don't know' is one of the most powerful things you can say because it creates the potential to find out.

Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!

We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.

To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being your own hidden being you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child's world.

People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves

The opportunities that everyone cannot see are the real opportunities.

It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done. And then try to bring those things in to what you're doing.

Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of action.

Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need . . .

Effective leaders let people discover things for themselves.

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

The leader is always learning new things and gaining new insights.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.

Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.