35 Inspirational Quotes On Discovery

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