Quotes About Discovery

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Take a journey to the realm of the truth.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

Ultimately photography is about who you are. It's the truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

It's time to find out what the truth really is that's out there.

I think that what you've got to do is discover the essential truth of the situation, and have a point of view about it.

Truth was, if you were going to believe something, it was best to believe in stuff that made the world seem a more interesting place.