It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Discovery Quotes
I’m more interested in what I discover than what I invent.
Behind him (Columbus) lay the gray Azores, Behind the Gates of Hercules; Before him not the ghost of shores, Before him only shoreless seas. The good mate said: “Now we must pray, For lo! the very stars are gone. Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say?” – “Why, say, ‘Sail on! sail on! and on! […]
We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
The importance of the Lewis and Clark expedition lay on the level of imagination: it was drama, it was the enactment of a myth that embodied the future. It gave tangible substance to what had been merely an idea, and established the image of a highway across the continent so firmly in the minds of […]
The success of a discovery depends upon the time of its appearance.
Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
He (Columbus) enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
