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Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.
There is no better high than discovery.
In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.
Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.
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