discovery

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

The great obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it . . . that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied, "there is a meaning; at least, for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill-prepared for making discoveries; they also make poor observations.

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

Away back in that time-in 1492 - there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man. . . . What did he find when he first arrived here? Did he find a white man standing on the continent then? . . . I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.

He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.