Discovering Something Quotes:

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

- Boris Pasternak

topic: Art, People, Ordinary, Discovering Something

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

- William Hazlitt

source: William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.42

topic: Art, Knowledge, People, Discovering Something, Concealing

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

- Carl Jung

topic: Becoming, Conscious, True Self, Discovering Yourself, Sacrilege

The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

source: "The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Knowledge Trilogy, Book 1)". Book by Daniel J. Boorstin, 1983.

topic: Ocean, Ignorance, Knowledge, Knowledge And Ignorance, Discovering Something

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.

- Thomas Szasz

source: Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

topic: Life, Wisdom, Self, Discovering Yourself, Lost Yourself

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

- Frank Herbert

topic: Knowledge, Caring, Discovery, Infinite Knowledge, Knowledge And Learning

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

- Stephen Hawking

source: "Stephen Hawking's £1.8m physics prize win proves time is money" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

topic: Winning, Joy, Research, Discovering Something

Total commitment. You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?

- Sarah Dessen

source: Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.188, Penguin

topic: Commitment, Ideas, Purpose, Discovering Something

I like feeling like I'm discovering something new. That's really a special feeling and also, you don't have it that often. At least, I don't. Maybe I'm not creative enough.

- David Rees

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Creative, Feelings, Special, Discovering Something, Discovering Something New

I feel I'm discovering something new, a different rhythm, and I guess these rhythms have a lot to do with walking, too, but it's a longer trajectory now. I'm traveling greater distances with each sentence. But I don't write about walking that much anymore.

- Paul Auster

source: Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

topic: Distance, Writing, Different, Discovering Something, Discovering Something New

What possibilities exist here? What is presenting itself to me IN THIS MOMENT that I can use? In a very real sense, it's meditation in motion, the practical application of an esoteric practice. And it relies on the acceptance of serendipity. Serendipity, the effect of accidentally discovering something fortunate

- Tom Bergeron

topic: Real, Acceptance, Practice, Discovering Something

The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.

- Pope Leo I

topic: Catholic, Devil, Novel, Discovering Something

With God, life is eternal-both in quality and length. There is no joy comparable to the joy of discovering something new from God, about God. If the continuing life is a life of joy, we will go on discovering, learning.

- Eugenia Price

topic: God, Joy, Quality, Discovering Something, Discovering Something New

Perhaps the future of the world would be in better hands if we forgot about discovering something new and concentrated on recovering our past.

- Marlo Morgan

source: Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

topic: Past, Hands, World, Discovering Something, Discovering Something New

The significance and joy in my science comes in those occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, 'So that's how God did it.' My goal is to understand a little corner of God's plan.

- Henry F. Schaefer, III

topic: Goal, Joy, Atheism, Discovering Something, Discovering Something New

The other thing that I love too is the enthusiasm of the QVC customer. She loves fashion, she loves looking great, and she loves discovering something new.

- Brad Goreski

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Fashion, Enthusiasm, Discovering Something New, Love Fashion, Discovering Something