Favorite Quotations ~  Discovery, 2 Answers To Life's Difficult Questions

"At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

A Quiet Moment Writing Near the French Broad River

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are the portals of discovery. ~ James Joyce

A traveler am I and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul. ~ Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. ~ William Stafford

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. ~ The Buddha

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

And when one has discovered and evolved a new form, it is not the form but the fact that you are the form that is important. ~ Gertrude Stein

You won't discover the limits of the soul, however far you go. ~ Heraclitus

Acorns were good until bread was found. ~ Francis Bacon

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. ~ William James

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. ~ Susanne K. Langer

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried. ~ Frank Tyger

The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think. ~ Søren Kierkegaard

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. ~ Michelangelo

I usually find that the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers. ~ Dean Ornish

When you seek it, you cannot find it. ~ Zen Proverb

I do think that there is an innocence to people who are searching for things. It's a beautiful thing when you leave yourself vulnerable to discover anything and everything. ~ Kate Hudson

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected. ~ Sophocles

I believe that the extraordinary should certainly be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. ~ Carl Sagan

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