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Quotes about Discovery

No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.
— Publilius Syrus
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
— William James
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
— Helen Keller
Lose yourself wholly and the more you lose the more you will find.
— Catherine of Siena
If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?
— Will Rogers
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
— William Barclay
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
— William Barclay
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
— William Hazlitt
If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
— William Hazlitt
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
— William Jones
Man's condition ought to impel him to seek to discover whether there is a God and a solution to his predicament. But people occupy their time and their thoughts with trivialities and distractions, so as to avoid the despair, boredom, and anxiety that would inevitably result if those diversions were removed.
— William Lane Craig
I long with intense desire to move on and finish my work, I have also an excessive wish to find anything that may exist proving the visit of the great Moses and the ancient kingdom of Tirhaka, but I pray give me just what pleases Thee my Lord, and make me submissive to Thy will in all things.
— David Livingstone