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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
Education
Ignorance
Own
Progressive
Our
Discovery
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
Travel
Eyes
Consists
Seeking
Having
New
Voyage
New Eyes
Real
Discovery
Landscapes
Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.
Rick Warren
Life
Journey
Ups And Downs
Transformation
Despair
Valleys
Life Happens
Discovery
Ups
Happens
Process
Deep
Moments
Downs
Tons
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Knowledge
Ignorance
Illusion
Obstacle
Greatest
Greatest Obstacle
Discovery
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Truth
Truth Is
Weakness
More
Directly
Mislead
Powers
Opinion
False
Discovery
Error
Effectively
Preconceived
Which
Prejudice
Reasoning
Appearance
Things
Present
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Thomas Merton
Space
Moon
Rest
Abyss
Important
Ourselves
Able
Cross
Only
Disastrous
Most
Without
Sailing
Discovery
The Most Important
Gain
To The Moon
Us
Separates
Useless
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey
Attitude
Future
Time
Great
Change
Changing
All-Time
Merely
Greatest
His
Discovery
Person
When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America.
Judy Garland
Great
You
People
Black
Black And White
Goodness
White
Group
Monopoly
Else
Immigrants
Find
No-One
Takes
Know
Looks
Make
Catholic
Make Up
Protestant
Discovery
Lot
Brains
Up
America
Get
Anything
Anything Else
Descendants
Recent
Jewish
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
Life
Attitude
Generation
Human Being
My Generation
Attitudes
Alter
Altering
Greatest
His
Discovery
Human
Being
I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.
Billy Corgan
Moving On
Journey
Nature
Spiritual
Own
Think
Recovery
Discovery
Much
Your
Inner
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
Man
Genius
Intelligence
Mistakes
Makes
His
Discovery
Errors
Portals
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Love
Love Is
Universe
Only
Adventure
Develops
Like
Perpetual
Discovery
Itself
Survives
Conquest
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
Eyes
Consists
Seeking
Having
Only
New
Voyage
New Eyes
Real
Discovery
Landscapes
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
Hannah Arendt
Best
Crime
Guilt
Collective
Nothing
Guilty
Possible
Magnitude
No-One
Excuse
Safeguard
Doing
Discovery
Very
Confessions
Where
Against
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
Thomas Merton
Truth
God
Myself
Truth Is
First
Finding
About
Step
Toward
First Step
Been
Discover
Discovery
Error
Who
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Lee Iacocca
Generation
Mind
My Generation
Attitudes
Alter
Altering
Greatest
Discovery
Human
Human Beings
Beings
Lives
You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.
Nate Berkus
Life
You
Yourself
Try
Challenge
Will
New Things
Sense
Approach
Enrich
New
Always
Discovery
Wonder
Your
Things
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Thought
Seen
Thinking
Everybody
Consists
Seeing
Nobody
Discovery
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Thought
Seen
Thinking
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Seeing
Nobody
Nobody Else
Discovery
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell
Happiness
Time
Nature
Made
Every
Every Time
Possibility
Feel
Longer
Talk
Sure
Odd
Opposite
Discovery
Quite
Convinced
Gardener
It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities unless the discovery prompts up to amendment.
John Quincy Adams
Own
Our
Unless
Faults
Discover
Discovery
Up
Amendment
Use
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
Rene Descartes
Hope
Me
Judge
Will
Others
Pleasure
Those
Kindly
Posterity
Only
Also
Judge Me
Leave
Discovery
Intentionally
Which
Explained
Things
The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.
Richard P. Feynman
Made
Atoms
Stars
Earth
Those
Astronomy
Kind
Remarkable
Most
Discovery
Same
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
Education
Ignorance
Own
Nothing
Progressive
Our
Everything
Knew
Know
Years
Years Ago
Discovery
Sixty
Now
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
Enrico Fermi
You
Measurement
Result
Made
Possible
Outcomes
Hypothesis
Discovery
Contrary
Then
Two
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles
Mistake
Made
Never
He
Discovery
Who
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