Discovered Quotes

• Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Truth
  • Rule
  • Discovered

• Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Humor
  • Irony
  • Misrelationship

• Meanwhile, an even stranger and more radical transformation is under way. Having discovered subterranean reserves of energy, humans begin to change the composition of the atmosphere.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Transformation

• The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read no other; inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines; it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false; the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Dangerous
  • Faults
  • False

• We have so much to cover and so little time to cover it. Howard Gardner refers to curriculum coverage as the single greatest enemy of understanding. Think instead about ideas to be discovered.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Enemy
  • Discovered
  • Cover

• I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.

  

  Eric Mazur
  • Teacher
  • Information
  • Students

• I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

  

  Evan Parker
  • Decision
  • Technique
  • Solo

• My mother always saw evil where, to my great annoyance, it was sooner or later discovered that evil really was, and her crossed eye seemed made purposely to identify the secret motives of the neighborhood.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Neighborhood
  • My Mother
  • Annoyance

• Out there on the plain there is silence, and where there is silence I have discovered there.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Silence
  • Discovered

• It's always the case for writers that when there are limitations, you have the opportunity for your creativity really to blossom and to become deeper and fuller and to move in directions that you wouldn't have discovered on your own.

  

  Emily Barton
  • Creativity
  • Limitations
  • Directions

• Jesus was probably a guy who thought, "This thing that I've discovered can save the world and everybody is miserable without it." So he was probably a very kind and giving person and thought he had to give it to people, even if it killed him. He had to make sure they got the message, and he paid the ultimate price as they say due to his insistence.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Jesus
  • Price
  • Message

• As this VP discovered, being a boss is much like being a high-status primate in any group: the creatures beneath you in the pecking order watch every move you make – and so they know a lot more about you than you know about them.

  

  Bob Sutton
  • Creatures
  • Move
  • Watch

• Somewhere deep down in us is stored the secret, and when we are digging in the wrong place, we know it. The secret wants to be discovered and will not let us go in peace a way that is not ours.

  

  Elizabeth O'Conner
  • Peace
  • Secret
  • Discovered

• As an adult, I discovered Claritin, and my whole world changed.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Changed
  • Discovered
  • Adult

• As I traveled toward Milan, I discovered that, with Lila set aside, I didn’t know how to give myself substance except by modeling myself on Nino. I was incapable of being a model for myself. Without him I no longer had a nucleus from which to expand outside the neighborhood and through the world, I was a pile of debris.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Myself
  • Model
  • Traveled

• When I discovered drama, I felt a connection.

  

  Ray Fearon
  • Drama
  • Connection
  • Discovered

• The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context in which anything other than continuity seemed to be absurd according to the views held until then.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Book
  • Nature
  • Views

• I have just discovered the beautiful poetry of Soren Ulrik Thomsen. Danish is not the strongest of languages, but he uses it very well.

  

  Sidse Babett Knudsen
  • Poetry
  • Discovered
  • Languages

• The answers are never 'out there. ' All the answers are 'in there, ' inside you, waiting to be discovered.

  

  Chris Prentiss
  • Answers
  • Discovered

• In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose has it been put, was too much paid for it and did it teach you anything? How much has been learned by experience? Have I discovered where I am useful and useless, how I am nourished and starved?

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Teach
  • Learned
  • Autobiography

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