Discovery Quotes — Page 39

Victor Hugo

Novelist, Poet

“Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.”

Peace Civilization Discovery

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Ted Allen

Chef

“For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing off with friends, trying new ideas.”

Ideas Adventure Discovery

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.”

Discovery Vices Reform

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.”

Men Discovery Aids

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.”

Men Errors Discovery

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Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

“Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.”

Past Memories Discovery

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.”

Wish Ends Discovery

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying the price at which they are offered to us. Every man wishes to be rich, but very few have the powers necessary to raise a sudden fortune, either by new discoveries, or by superiority of skill in any necessary employment; and among lower understandings many want the firmness and industry requisite to regular gain and gradual acquisitions.”

Men Skills Discovery

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“Human experience, which is constantly contradicting theory, is the great test of truth. A system, built upon the discoveries of a great many minds, is always of more strength, than what is produced by the mere workings of any one mind, which, of itself, can do very little. There is not so poor a book in the world that would not be a prodigious effort were it wrought out entirely by a single mind, without the aid of prior investigators.”

Writing Book Discovery

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.”

Men Pride Discovery

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Virginia Woolf

Novelist

“For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is it to be in love?" she demanded, after a long silence; each word as it came into being seemed to shove itself out into an unknown sea. Hypnotized by the wings of the butterfly, and awed by the discovery of a terrible possibility in life, she sat for some time longer. When the butterfly flew away, she rose, and within, her two books beneath her arm returned again, much as a soldier prepares for battle.”

Book Discovery Butterfly

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist”

Discovery Unhappy Too Late

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