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Quotes About Discovery

One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.
~ Louis L'Amour
Whenever we proceed from the known to the unkown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding'
~ Werner Heisenberg
For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.
~ Alexander McQueen
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
~ Thomas Merton
I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.
~ Neil Gaiman
When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
~ Damien Rice
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
~ Robert Ballard
You don't always need the absolute latest gear. Find your piece(s) of equipment and let time evolve your ideas with that setup.
~ Richie Hawtin
It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.
~ Lois Lowry
We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time.
~ Jack Johnson
It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.
~ Luchino Visconti
I was searching all the time for something that I'd never lost or left behind.
~ Jim Croce
If you're really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
~ Billy Gibbons
The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.
~ Andre Kertesz
For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
~ Chief Joseph
Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.
~ Romare Bearden
Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.
~ James Altucher
Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned.
~ Don Cheadle
Search, no matter what situation you are in. O thirsty one, search for water constantly. Finally, the time will come when you will reach the spring.
~ Rumi
Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.
~ Anthony Eden
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.
~ Jonah Lehrer