Discovering Quotes

• We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Truth, Honesty

  "The Critic as Artist". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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• Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.

  J. G. Holland

  Science, Men, Discovery

  J. G. HOLLAND (1867). “KATHRINA: HER LIFE AND MINE, IN A POEM”, p.230

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• Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

  Thomas Moore

  Finding The One, Soul, World

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

  Robert Morgan

  Philosophical, Language, Preoccupation

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• This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.

  Eric Clapton

  Pain, Journey, Mixtures

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• By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

  O. Henry

  Choices, Doctrine, Habit

  O. Henry (2015). “Heart of the West”, p.131, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me.

  Bede Griffiths

  Mean, Long, Age

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• Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

  Stefan Zweig

  Horizon, World, England

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• The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

  Tim Cahill

  Fashion, Art, Finding The One

  "Wild Life: An Interview With Tim Cahill". Interview with Erik Kancler, www.motherjones.com. March 25, 2005.

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• Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.

  Stewart Brand

  California, Southern, Desert

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• Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

  Ian Mckellen

  Character, Personality, Acting

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. July 10, 2000.

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• Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

  Jasmine Guy

  Strong, People, Information

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• I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them.

  Charlie Haden

  Teaching, Want

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• I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

  J. B. Priestley

  Reading, Important, Half

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  You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

  Alan Alda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Alan Alda's commencement speech at Connecticut College in New London, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.

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• The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

  Julien Green

  Heart, Men, Discovery

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• I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

  Alicia Keys

  Who I Am, Want, Stay Focused

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wise, Dream

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

  A. A. Milne

  Life, Cute, Science

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

  Frank Herbert

  Knowledge, Caring, Discovery

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.150, Penguin

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• Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

  Hugh Prather

  Change, Life Changing, Live Life

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.41, Bantam

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• People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

  Thomas Szasz

  Life, Wisdom, Creating

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

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