Learning/Discovery
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. |
Mohammed Ali |
Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt. |
William Van Horne |
An open mind opens doors. |
Anonymous |
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. |
Arthur C. Clarke |
I am still learning. |
Michelangelo, at 87 |
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. |
Marie Curie |
The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. |
Henri Bergson |
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. |
Louisa May Alcott |
When I discover who I am, I’ll be free. |
Ralph Ellison |
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. |
Henry Miller |
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
There is pleasure in the pathless woods. |
Byron |
If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. |
Sir Isaac Newton |
The road was new to me, as roads always are going back. |
Sarah Orne Jewett |
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life. |
Rachel Carson |
I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. |
Goethe |
The best way to learn is to learn from the best. |
Margaret Mead |
There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old and therefore good.” The other says, “This is new and therefore better.” |
Geoff Wood |
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Discovery consists in looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different. |
Albert Szent-Györgyi |
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions |
Alexander Pope |
No stream rises higher than its source. Whatever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. |
Confucius |
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. |
Rachel Carson |
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...' |
Isaac Asimov |
It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. |
James Thurber |
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. |
Edgar Allen Poe |
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity. |
Albert Einstein |
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. |
Albert Einstein |
Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. |
Mark Twain |
The real voyage of discovery consists not only in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. |
Marcel Proust |
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. |
Ron Wild |
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- |
Robert Frost |
I have never let schooling interfere with my education. |
Mark Twain |