Top 100 Quotes About Discovers
#1. Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath.
Charles Spurgeon
#2. One discovers weeping - one's weeping personality - only upon weeping. It is a strange discovery, not only to others but to oneself
Yann Martel
#3. The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
Jean De La Bruyere
#4. The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
Anais Nin
#5. When man manages his intellect and steadies his mind,
He discovers the all-pervading Self.
Gian Kumar
#6. An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects.
Michel De Montaigne
#7. Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8. When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies.
Kelseyleigh Reber
#9. Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she has a medical problem.
Joel Fuhrman
#10. The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#11. The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's only gift that enables man to transcend his tragedy and regain his wholeness and well-being beyond the claws of evil, rampaging as evil may be.
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
#12. Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see
Soren Kierkegaard
#13. A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
Norman Mailer
#15. We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.
Thomas Merton
#16. Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.
Joseph Fourier
#17. Once humanity discovers what's behind the mirror of all the ruling class of governments and religions there will be a new beginning of justice called Enlightenment.
Charleston Parker
#18. If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.
Jesse Jackson
#19. The Saab seethed off into the night. Arthur watched it go, as stunned as a man might be who, having believed himself to be totally blind for five years, suddenly discovers that he had merely been wearing too large a hat.
Douglas Adams
#20. Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
Norman Douglas
#21. pleased to observe, that you submit to reason and necessity without indulging useless complaint. I applaud this conduct exceedingly, the more, perhaps, since it discovers a strength of mind seldom observable in your sex.
Eliza Parsons
#22. A man of sense soon discovers, because he carefully observes, where and how long he is welcome; and takes care to leave the company at least as soon as he is wished out of it. Fools never perceive whether they are ill timed or ill placed.
Lord Chesterfield
#23. Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
Sri Aurobindo
#24. Eternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when he finds it out himself and tells her about it.
Helen Rowland
#25. He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.
Francis Quarles
#26. A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.
William Greider
#27. You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers discontinuities in the data, perhaps, or in one's own thinking; then the act of writing forces you to work harder to resolve these contradictions.
Anthony F. C. Wallace
#28. A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
James Allen
#29. Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.
Frederick The Great
#30. Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'.
Pope John Paul II
#31. It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.
D.W. Winnicott
#32. Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.
Gary Keller
#33. Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of 'not knowing.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#34. The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
Wally Lamb
#35. Girl discovers reading, then discovers life.
Nancy Pearl
#36. It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.
Gaston Bachelard
#37. The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose.
Russell Brand
#38. The perfect fight is one that is over before the loser really understands what is going on. The perfect defense is a counterattack that succeeds before the assailant discovers that he has bitten off more than he can chew.
Jeff Cooper
#39. Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill, however slightly, he is likely to try out not just one more, but a whole ensemble.
Margaret Mead
#40. One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.
Marvin J. Ashton
#41. One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.
Anais Nin
#42. The man who discovers new knowledge is the permanent benefactor of humanity.
Ayn Rand
#43. It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.
Ismail Merchant
#44. Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
Edgar Quinet
#46. Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
Annie Dillard
#47. If one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery. It is because they can't; they are bound. And nobody on earth knows what are the bonds that bind them except those two.
Katherine Mansfield
#48. Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs of the individual. Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
Gordon Allport
#49. O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.
Benjamin Franklin
#50. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams
#51. One discovers answers to problems only when one feels that they are burning and that it is a a matter of life and death to solve them. Is nothing is of burning interest, one's reason and one's critical faculty operate on a low level of activity; it appears then that one lacks the faculty to observe.
Erich Fromm
#52. If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
John Cage
#53. Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
Leo Rosten
#54. You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite - embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to write puerile bilge, or you change. In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.
Billy Collins
#55. Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#56. I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music.
Simon Cowell
#57. He discovers that God is the very source of our existence. As Lewis will put it: "He is the opaque centre of all existences, the thing that simply and entirely is, the fountain of facthood.
Colin Duriez
#58. The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.
Marc Forster
#59. Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
Elbert Hubbard
#60. The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through, if one dares, and collecting them, one discovers the true design.
James Salter
#61. A seeker ventures out to find beauty. When he is on the top of a mountain, he discovers that beauty is inside of his heart.
Debasish Mridha
#62. God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they had never the opportunity of performing.
Joseph Addison
#63. It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.
Lukas Foss
#64. From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
Sigmund Freud
#65. The person who is willing to say yes to experience is the person who discovers new frontiers.
John Templeton
#66. Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.
Lawrence Blume
#67. Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.
Simon Kuper
#68. The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.
Thomas Jefferson
#69. JOCASTA:
So clear in this case were the oracles,
so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say;
what God discovers need of, easily
he shows to us himself.
Sophocles
#70. Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#71. Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.
George Jean Nathan
#73. Chomsky is like the teenager who first discovers that those in authority - his parent, his teacher - are not as all-knowing as they claim to be and as their underlings once imagined them to be, and who persists in endlessly showing them up
Jeffrey C. Isaac
#74. No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say, and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down.
Seth Godin
#75. Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.
Sri Chinmoy
#76. You can be as good as Rembrandt, but if no one discovers you, you will only be a genius in theory.
Eric Weiner
#77. What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.
Lynne Truss
#78. Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion.
Malcolm X
#79. At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.
Maria Montessori
#80. As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God; though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties.
Anthony Burgess
#81. Like many others before him, Abbott discovers, once married, that marriage is a battle - clinically, a negotiation - over the possession of the Bad Mood.
Chris Bachelder
#82. Mercer didn't know, but Lost Illusions was one of his personal favorites. Basically, a young poet from the provinces comes to Paris to make his fortune and, in the fullness of time, discovers that he's been wrong about everything. All the people he takes for geniuses are idiots, and vice versa.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#83. It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is so hard to discover and such a surprise when you do.
Edmund Morgan
#84. The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.
Orhan Pamuk
#85. Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
Baltasar Gracian
#86. The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Blaise Pascal
#87. Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
Gary Larson
#89. He who discovers the heart of Arcrea and joins the hands of the seven regions will be king.
Nicole Sager
#90. This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged ...
Teresa Of Avila
#91. In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
Albert Camus
#92. Real love changes and grows with time and discovers new ways of expressing itself.
Paulo Coelho
#93. An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
Andre Malraux
#94. Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
Elias Canetti
#95. He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#96. There is no substitute for persistence. The person who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that "Old Man Failure" finally becomes tired, and makes his departure. Failure cannot cope with persistence.
Napoleon Hill
#97. The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers.
George Herbert
#98. A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea.
Phyllis Battelle
#99. Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds them up to a light that discovers those latent flaws which would probably have lain concealed in the gloom of unagitated abstraction.
William Melmoth
#100. What one heart finds in Him is so different than what another discovers, yet none less true.
Dana Candler
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