Quotes on Discovering

The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.

Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see. The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.

... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It is the saddest thing in the world if a human being goes through life without discovering that he needs God!

The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.

The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.

What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that made the discovering scientist's working hypotheses seem crude by comparison. The discovered reality made the scientists exploratory work seem relatively disorderly.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. It's not like highly defined train tracks or a highway; this is a path that you are creating discovering. The journey is your narrative. Keep to it and there will be a tale told.

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.