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• I had my moments for sure but I wasn’t confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you’d find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

  Andre Agassi

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  Tags in Discovery, Invention, Confrontational, Moments

• People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

  Blaise Pascal

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  Tags in Discovery, Persuasion, People, Found

• What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Belief, Knowledge

  Tags in Discovery, Opposite

• The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Topics in Belief, Truth

  Tags in Discovery, Prejudices

• The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

  Albert Einstein

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  Tags in Discovery, Process, Continual, Wonder, Scientific, Flight, Light, Darkness

• It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Beauty, Truth

  Tags in Discovery, Goodness, Morning

• Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

  Alexander Graham Bell

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  Tags in Discovery, Inventor, Inventions

• Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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• Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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• A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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• It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.

  Charles Caleb Colton

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• What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

  Thomas Merton

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  Tags in Discovery, Sailing, Able, Rest, Useless, Important

• There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

  Thomas Carlyle

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  Tags in Discovery, Write, Great, Literature

• I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

  René Descartes

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  Tags in Discovery, Posterity, Pleasure, Judge

• The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all.

  Richard J. Foster

  Topics in God

  Tags in Discovery, Ordinary

• A man of genius makes no mistakes.His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

  James Joyce

  Topics in Genius, Mistake

  Tags in Discovery, Makes

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  Aaref Hilaly

  Topics in Business, Motivational

  Tags in Discovery, Processes, Organization

• The real voyage of discovery is not in seeking new places, but in seeing with new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

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  Tags in Discovery, Places

• Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

  Tom Krause

  Topics in Inspirational, Success

  Tags in Courage, Discovery, Trying

• The delights of self-discovery are always available.

  Gail Sheehy

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  Tags in Self, Discovery