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Quotations by Subject: Discovery (17 quotes)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.: William James (1842 - 1910)
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.: Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.: Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), Physiologie du Gout, 1825
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.: John Keats (1795 - 1821)
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.: James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
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I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.: Joanna Field
The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.: Arnold Palmer (1929 - )

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