Quotes about Discovery
The tomb of Adam! How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, and friends, and all who cared for me, thus to discover the grave of a blood relation.
- Mark Twain
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born an the day you find out why.
- Mark Twain
The grave of Adam! How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, & friends, & all who cared for me thus to discover the grave of a blood relation. True, a distant one, but still a relation.
- Mark Twain
There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it sometimes.
- Mark Twain
It was fun, scurrying around the breezy hills and through the beautiful canyons. There was that rare thing, novelty, about it; it was a fresh, new, exhilarating sensation, this donkey riding, and worth a hundred worn and threadbare home pleasures.
- Mark Twain
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered—either by themselves or by others.
- Mark Twain
Just as I was moaning out the closing hunks of that word. I touched off one of my electric connections, and all that murky world of people stood revealed in a hideous blue glare! It was immense—that effect! Lots of people shrieked, women curled up and quit in every direction, foundlings collapsed by platoons. The abbot and the monks crossed themselves nimbly and their lips fluttered with agitated prayers.
- Mark Twain
We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world....Love is the only way.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today we have discovered the word that could not be said. I
- Ayn Rand
The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.
- Ayn Rand
That was the real sentence imposed upon him, he thought - to discover what idea, what simple idea available to the simplest man, had made mankind accept the doctrines that led it to self-destruction.
- Ayn Rand
she had always looked for sparks of competence, like a diamond prospector in an unpromising wasteland.
- Ayn Rand