Discovery is the process of finding information, a place or an object, especially for the first time or the thing that is found. May these quotes inspire you to live a life of discovery.
1. “Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.” Albert Szent Gyorgi
2. “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” James Joyce
3. “The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.” Bill Watterson
4. “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” Will Durant
5. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust
6. “The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.” Frank Herbert
7. “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.” Daniel J. Boorstin
8. “Writing, like life itself is a voyage of discovery.” Henry Miller
9. “No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.” Isaac Newton
10. “He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.” Samuel Smiles
11. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” Mark Van Doren
12. “There is no discovery without risk an what you risk reveals what you value.” Jeanette Winterson
13. “Sometimes you need to get lost in order to discover anything.” Katie Knovinsky
14. “Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.” Alexander Smith
15. “We cannot teach people anything, we can only help them discover it within themselves.” Galileo Galilei
16. “Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.” Daniel Goleman
17. “Discovery is one more way of finding answers.” Anonymous
18. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” Jim Rohn
19. “I’m an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.” Karlheinz Stockhausen
20. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Andre Gide
21. “Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.” Alan Watts
22. “The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.” Arthur Koestler
23. “Discovery is the fuel of competitive advantage.” Jay Abraham
24. “Learning is the discovery that something is possible.” Fritz Perls
25. “Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” Tom Krause
26. “Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.” Henri Poincare
27. “We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.” Anonymous
28. “Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.” Edmund Phelps
29. “The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.” Bryant H. McGill
30. “The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.” William James
31. “Writing is an incessant process of discovery.” Robert Hass
32. “Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.” Alexander Graham Bell
33. “People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.” Blaise Pascal
34. “A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.” Albert Szent Gyorgyi
35. “There is no greater journey than the one that you must take to discover all of the mysteries that lie within you.” Michelle Sandlin