We do not receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.Marcel Proust
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home.John Muir
The future belongs to those who are not afraid to make mistakes, because they know that every mistake is a step further on the path of discovery.Jules Verne
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.Francis Bacon
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems.Abraham Lincoln
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.Robert Bresson
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
Keep in mind, just because you don’t know the answer doesn’t mean that one does not exist. You simply haven’t discovered it yet.Joel Osteen
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.Ralph Waldo Emerson
In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.Joyce Brothers
If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all.Robert Koch
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint—and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.Oprah Winfrey
Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day.Lauren Fleshman
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.Lawrence Block
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.William Arthur Ward
What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.Paulo Coelho
Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .C.S. Lewis
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.Oprah Winfrey
It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.Lupita Nyong'o
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.Samuel Smiles
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.Neil Armstrong
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.William James
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.James Truslow Adams