1,204 Quotes About Discovery

Silences like these were never uncomfortable for them, never an awkward space squabbling for meaningless words to fill it. It was acceptance, of a sort, an understanding. These were the people who had lived long and fitfully enough to discover that they were not alone, that there were people out there who would love and fight with them.

Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment

If you haven’t found yourself yet, it’s difficult to help someone to discover himself. False leaders make more false leaders!

A young hero is the world's greatest attraction.

I observed that plants not only have a faculty to correct bad air in six to ten days, by growing in it...but that they perform this important office in a complete manner in a few hours; that this wonderful operation is by no means owing to the vegetation of the plant, but to the influence of light of the sun upon the plant.

True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself.

When I was young, I thought it was thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in St. Paul's High School, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise. I learnt to take the course of my life, not by violence but rather with intelligence.

It’s the unknown that draws people.

The poorly educated air their grievances with guns, the smart use science, discovery and the global internet.