Discovering Quotes - page 10

The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe. (David Hare (dramatist))
I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am. View quote
Alicia Keys
When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself. View quote
Jean Piaget
What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including also the scientific knowledge. View quote
Jean Piaget
People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer. View quote
J. G. Ballard
The Thibet priests have methods of their own of discovering what Man is Greatest, fit to be supreme over them. Bad methods: but are they so much worse than our methods,-of understanding him to be always the eldest-born of a certain genealogy? Alas, it is a difficult thing to find good methods for! View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them. View quote
Stephenie Meyer
For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing ... is discovering. View quote
Robert Frost
No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before. View quote
Stephen Hawking
What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
A scientific theory is usually felt to be better than its predecessors not only in the sense that it is a better instrument for discovering and solving puzzles but also because it is somehow a better representation of what nature is really like. One often hears that successive theories grow ever closer to, or approximate more and more closely to, the truth. Apparently generalizations like that refer not to the puzzle-solutions and the concrete predictions derived from a theory but rather to its ontology, to the match, that is, between the entities with which the theory populates nature and what is "really there.”. (Thomas Samuel Kuhn)
It is the pride of discovering that one is not merely a bundle of reflexes and conditioned responses; that instead one is a thinking being, who can choose the right over the easy, and justice over safety. View quote
Matthew Stover
What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want to die. That, too, was mine; and it also is to the good. For that experience resolved proportions and relationships for me as nothing else could have done; and it is surprising, approaching the final enlightenment, how little one really has to know or feel sure about. View quote
Richard E. Byrd
Only straight discovering in the nearest stone or tree, sound or thought, the shelter of His often desecrated goodness, the treasury of His waiting form man's heart to affiliate with His will - this is the rapture of faith. It is an echo to a pleading voice, a reply to the inconceivable in all beauty. View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about. View quote
Tom Wolfe
As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense. View quote
Kaya Scodelario
Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. View quote
Gloria Steinem
The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe. View quote
Cyril Connolly
We are at an extraordinary moment in human history: never before has the possibility of true democracy been so close to realisation. At the cost of publishing and duplication has dropped to near zero, a truly free press, and a truly informed public, becomes a reality. A new Information Enlightment is dawning where knowledge flows freely, beyond national boundaries. Technology is breaking down traditional social barriers of status, class, power, wealth and geography, replacing them with an ethos of collaboration and transparency. In this new Enlightenment it isn't just scientific truths that are the goal, but discovering truths about the way we live, about politics and power. View quote
Heather Brooke
I'm fascinated with the process of creating a character and the freedom of the creative process. I'm discovering as well, learning myself. Since I only realized I had the gift ten years ago, I felt I needed to develop this. I also like fiction because it is not doctrinaire. It is exploratory and you are invited to come and see, just like Jesus first invited would-be disciples to ‘come and see'. What you do after seeing is left to you. View quote
Uwem Akpan
Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief. (Chuck Palahniuk)
What's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the universe, about ourselves, about our bodies, about diseases, about the possibilities of the future. It's amazing. Science is one of the coolest things about being a human being - without a doubt. View quote
Joe Rogan
There are two sorts of constancy in loveone arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!. View quote
Rob Zombie
Are the mystics and sages insane? Because they all tell variations on the same story, don't they? The story of awakening one morning and discovering you are one with the All, in a timeless and eternal and infinite fashion. View quote
Ken Wilber