Discovering Quotes - Page 26

• Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning.

  Ken Wilber

  Profound, Force, Method

  Ken Wilber (2011). “The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion”, p.12, Random House

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• Bring a vampire around, people start discovering religion.

  Richard Laymon

  People, Vampire

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• The real joy is in discovering that the twigs and branches of my practice are all firmly rooted in a single tree, even as time goes by and I become increasingly aware of the fleetingness of all things.

  James Nares

  Real, Practice, Tree

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• Now it seems to me that we are in a universalising period... If we are to have world peace, we should have an understanding of all the idioms of beauty because the members of humanity who have created these idioms of beauty are going to be a part of us. And I would say that we are in a period when we are discovering and becoming acquainted with these idioms for the first time.

  Mark Tobey

  Should Have, Understanding, Humanity

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• Before my encounter with Thomist philosophy through Maritain, I had almost reached the same conclusions through the logical development of my work, intuition and thought, but what a great sense of joy I felt upon discovering, in Maritain, the confirmation of certain thought patterns, certain ways of clarifying these to myself and to others.

  Gino Severini

  Philosophy, Joy, Intuition

  "The Life of a Painter: The Autobiography of Gino Severini". Book by Gino Severini, 1995.

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• I hope that you're learning how important you are, how important each person you see can be. Discovering each one's specialty is the most important learning.

  Fred Rogers

  Important, Persons, Specialty

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• My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you're not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You're actually discovering in the writing process, you're actually creating knowledge.

  Alan Lightman

  Writing, Thinking, Creating

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• What possibilities exist here? What is presenting itself to me IN THIS MOMENT that I can use? In a very real sense, it's meditation in motion, the practical application of an esoteric practice. And it relies on the acceptance of serendipity. Serendipity, the effect of accidentally discovering something fortunate

  Tom Bergeron

  Real, Acceptance, Practice

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• You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly.

  Sam Keen

  Individual, Ideals

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• The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.

  Paul Theroux

  Eye, Writing, Differences

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.350, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

  Heinrich Heine

  Real, Taken, Tired

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• I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

  Keith Miller

  Christian, Adventure, Trying

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• In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment of this aim, his greatest asset is the directness of the process he employs. But this advantage can only be retained if he simplifies his equipment and technic to the minimum necessary, and keeps his approach from from all formula, art-dogma, rules and taboos. Only then can he be free to put his photographic sight to use in discovering and revealing the nature of the world he lives in.

  Edward Weston

  Art, Sight, Use

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation. There are few observers who possess a clear and comprehensive view of the revolutions of society, and who are capable of discovering the nice and secret springs of action which impel, in the same uniform direction, the bland and capricious passions of a multitude of individuals.

  Edward Gibbon

  Spring, Nice, Passion

  Edward Gibbon (1828). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.501

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• I'm really into quantum physics. Some of my friends are into it, some of them aren't, so I'm trying to get them excited about discovering all these interesting things about thoughts and the power of thoughts. It gives me chills thinking about it. It's fun.

  Carmen Electra

  Fun, Thinking, Giving

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• The most exciting part of finding out who we are is discovering our own uniqueness, who we are outside the box, beyond the categories in a Psychology 101 textbook. In our inimitable singularity, there is an infinite range of possibility that cannot be tied to any one description of what it means to be human or healthy.

  David Richo

  Mean, Psychology, Healthy

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• I love discovering tiny streets.

  Michelle Dockery

  Tiny, Streets

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Today I am discovering who I am.  Today I am becoming my person, worthy of developing all of me.  Today I am beginning to know that I am okay the way I am.

  Ruth Fishel

  Who I Am, Today, Way

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• After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

  Nancy Hale

  Mother, Losing Someone, Losing

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• Whenever I mentor people and help them discover their purpose, I always encourage them to start the process by discovering their strengths, not exploring their shortcomings. Why? Because people's purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness. It always works that way. You are not called to do something that you have no talent for. You will discover your purpose by finding and remaining in your strength zone.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Over You, Mentor

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd been chasing for so long--discovering it was merely metal, wrapped in cloth. It wasn't alive; it had no spirit. It was fake.

  Anne Lamott

  Long, Fake, Rabbits

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.304, Penguin

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• All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll; and much we discover, is not worth the discovering.

  Herman Melville

  Discovery, Sun, Has Beens

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.299

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• To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

  John F. Kennedy

  Writing, Army, America

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• Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Games, Mask, Social

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1976). “Games Zen Masters Play: Writings of R. H. Blyth”

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• Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Design, Soul, Enemy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.170

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