A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. ~ D. Elton Trueblood

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. ~ A.A. Milne, House At Pooh Corner

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others. ~ Blaise Pascal

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. ~ Anna Freud

People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore. ~ Andre Gide

The great discoveries are usually obvious. ~ Philip Crosby, Eternally Successful Organization

I don't observe and I don't describe; I rediscover. ~ Francois Mauriac, Paris Review

How do you go about finding anything? By keeping your mind and heart on it. Interest there must be and steady remembrance. To remember what needs to be remembered is the secret of success. You come to it through earnestness. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Follow the path you took yesterday to find new things. ~ John Burroughs

The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible. ~ Justus von Liebig

Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or a twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something? That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing. ~ Albert P. Ryder

Experience has shown that the most important results of any technological breakthrough are those that not obvious. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

I do not seek. I find. (Je ne cherche pas; je trouve) ~ Pablo Picasso

I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light. ~ Isaac Newton

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