Marcel Proust Quotes

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

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• The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Discovery
  • Most

• Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Inspiration
  • Literature
  • Books

• I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Work
  • Money
  • Discovery

• The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • World
  • Moments
  • Discovery

• Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Community
  • Listen
  • Discovery

• But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Like
  • Discovery
  • Invention

• Sex is a discovery.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Sex
  • Discovery

• The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Broken
  • Down
  • Discovery

• Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.

  

  Pete Waterman
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Looks

• Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Long
  • Search
  • Questions

• . . . voyage through death/ to life upon these shores.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Life
  • Death
  • Voyage

• Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Kiss

• That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?

  

  L. Todd Rose
  • Why
  • History
  • Question

• [X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Time
  • Power
  • Desire

• For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Home
  • Nature
  • Discovery

• The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Up
  • May
  • Amazing

• It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Pain
  • Rest
  • Courage

• The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Science
  • Race
  • Discovery

• The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Law
  • Failure
  • Discovery

• Videos are tricky because stuff sounds amazing on paper and it seems like it's going to be this mystical experience and you're going to look back and go, "Wow, that was magic." But more times than not, it doesn't end up that way, so I never know what I'm going to get.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• I have a great record against anybody right now, so it doesn't really matter who I play in the final. I'll be in there as the big favorite. But I play my best in the finals, in the important matches. That's why I'm number one. There's no secret...I'm not overconfident, but very confident.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Important
  • Play
  • Matter

• One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasn't there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • World
  • Father
  • Forest

• He brings huge experience but the challenge is not to have him doing it in isolation but also bringing those around him into the game.

  

  Ian Foster
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Challenge

• The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Discovery
  • Voyage
  • Landscapes