Top 1200 Discovery Of America Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

The very fact of seeking specialization is probably what makes America so great in these two hundred years. But also, the sensation that somebody who wants to understand America doesn't really need to visit it much.

The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention.

Instead of poor America on socialism becoming more like rich America on capitalism, rich America on capitalism is becoming like poor America on socialism.

God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

I found myself defending America a lot in England. They were always asking me racial questions. I'd say, 'You've got prejudice here, too. At least in America we're trying to deal with it.'

Sunscreen! It is a recent discovery and now I can't live without it - that and drinking lots of water and moisturizing.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

For me, the discovery of aquaporins was like a gift after 25 years in basic science.

Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery.

I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

I often find it maddening to live in America, in a way that is both amusing and horrifying to me. America clings to versions of itself that are absolutely hypocritical. I can't shake my outrage at it, so I write about it.

Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought.

Finding your personal style is a rich journey of discovery, wonder, adventure, and excitement.

Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.

It says something about our country that people around the world are willing to leave their homes and leave their families and risk everything to come to America. Their talent and hard work and love of freedom have helped make America the leader of the world. And our generation will ensure that America remains a beacon of liberty and the most hope fill society this world has ever known.

Thanks to Barack Obama, America is for the first time aligning its values with those of 'the majority of the world's population.' If you think the world's population has had better values than America, that is has made societies that are more open, free, and tolerant than American society, and that is has fought for others' liberty more than America has, you should be delighted.

Often, in great discovery the most important thing is that a certain question is found.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America`s gluttony on fossil fuel.

Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

We've always had the blame-America crowd. We've always had the hate-America crowd. But we've now had at least two generations of education where this has been indoctrinated into the young skulls full of mush of young people. They've heard how horrible America was back in the days of slavery. They've heard how horrible America treated women. They've heard how horrible every minority group was treated. They've heard how mean-spirited the founders were. They've heard all kinds of literal lies.

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it. Self-discovery takes us to the wildest places on earth

Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.

So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.

Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.

My background is in broadcast television - I used to be a travel host for BBC, Discovery, and National Geographic.

Women have been denied access to advanced methods of self discovery throughout the ages.

The government is simply working to ensure that the farmers get better price discovery for their produce.

I was just stunned when I came to America. I didn't know anything about rock music or football, and I felt very out of it... America was like a foreign country to me at first.

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.

Is America becoming decadent? Do we no longer regard our promises and pledges as sacred? ... We promised to make peace with Germany only in conjunction with the Allies; but we brought forward a separate peace, demanding for ourselves all the advantages of the Treaty of Versailles but rejecting all the responsibilities embodied in the Treaty. It was America's President who induced Europe to form a League of Nations; and then America was the first country that refused to joint it.... If these are not the symptoms of national decadency, what are they?

Everyone talks about discovery, but I really believe that great content finds its audience.

FCU's PLS discovery has quickly become one of the most exciting stories in the uranium sector.

It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?

Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America's status as a global power.

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.

Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.

Life cannot be mastered by a method but needs to be met with an attitude of openness and discovery

The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.

The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.