JW Jean Wilson Poet “Time-wasting activities are the dessert. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door.” Doors Discovery Wasting Time ♥ 3
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist “Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.” Long Exercise Discovery ♥ 3
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist “It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.” Art Sight Discovery ♥ 3
Joseph Heller Novelist “Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.” May Discovery Dread ♥ 3
Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet “The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's generosity? Why regret one's impulsiveness, one's misjudgment of others? The inevitable discovery that someone is selling letters you'd written in trust is simply to discover an obvious human truth: there are those who don't cherish us as we'd cherished them, and had wished to be cherished by them.” Regret Discovery Generosity ♥ 3
Julian Barnes Author “Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.” World Progress Discovery ♥ 3
Julian Barnes Author “Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.” Book Reading Discovery ♥ 3
Julianne Nicholson Actress “Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people.” People Discovery Luxury ♥ 3
Julian Huxley Biologist “...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.” Memories Honesty Discovery ♥ 3
Marshall McLuhan Philosopher, Media Theorist “Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visual, electronic world in the language of the visual world of Newton.” World Media Discovery ♥ 3
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Author “In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.” Gone Discovery Study ♥ 3
Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer “One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.” Wine Discovery Speech ♥ 3
