Discovery is the action or process of discovering or being discovered.

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

2. There is no better time than now during these relaxed days of summer, to slip away. To a special place where you have room to breathe, think and explore parts of yourself that surface in solitude…
Anonymous

3. We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Galileo Galilei

4. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

5. Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do with our leisure time; 5. The company we enjoy; 6. Who and what we admire; 7. What we laugh at.
A. W. Tozer

6. The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.
Bryant H. McGill

7. Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought
Anonymous

9. Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are…and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth.
Mandy Hale

10. The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert

11. It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
Frederick Sanger

12. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore
Anonymous

13. Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose
Anonymous

14. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorsti

15. There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
Jeanette Winterson

16. When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
William Arthur Ward

17. Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce

18. The energy of imagination, deliberation, and invention, which fall into a natural rhythm totally one’s own, maintained by innate discipline and a keen sense of pleasure. These are the ingredients of style
Diana Vreeland

19. Life is an endless process of self-discovery.
James Gardner

20. The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
Arthur Koestler

21. Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about discovering who God created you to be
Anonymous

22. There are two great days in a person's life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.
William Barclay

23. Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent-Györgyi

24. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Aldous Huxley

25. We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go
Anonymous

26. Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
Tom Krause

27. He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles

28. There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.
Waller Lippmann

29. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

30. No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
Isaac Newton

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31. DISCOVERY. We should think, travel, exist off the beaten path, because that is where the next great ideas are. It’s a habit for me now! Even inventions are not really our own, but they are results of ideas already set in.
Anonymous

32. Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition
Anonymous

33. The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey

34. There is more to myself than anyone has so far discovered
Anonymous

35. The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein

36. If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic. I suppose I could dispense with the last four if I were not so deadly serious about fidelity to the milieu out of which I write and in which my ancestors actually lived. Infidelity to that milieu – the absence of the interior life, the deliberate excising of it from the records […] – is precisely the problem in the discourse that proceeded without us. How I gain access to that interior life is what […] distinguishes my fiction from autobiographical strategies and which also embraces certain autobiographical strategies. It’s a kind of literary archeology: On the basis of some information and a little bit of guesswork, you journey to a site to see what remains were left behind and to reconstruct the world that these remains imply. What makes it fiction is the nature of the imaginative act: my reliance on the […] remains – in addition to recollection, to yield up a kind of a truth.
Toni Morrison

37. When I feel threatened, vulnerable, or insecure, whether it from simply walking into a room of unknown people, meeting someone for the first time, an unexpected or expected confrontation, or doing something new, I affirm in my mind (over and over): There is no danger, there is no threat. From there, the discomfort lessens and I become open for discovery and adventure
Charles F. Glassman

38. A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
James Joyce

39. There is no greater journey than the one that you must take to discover all of the mysteries that lie within you.
Michelle Sandlin

40. After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren

41. Each day holds the possibilities for great Discoveries & hidden Joy
Anonymous

42. Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock

43. The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark Van Doren

44. There is no better high than discovery.
E. O. Wilson

45. Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery—the frontier that drives the economies of the future—would be incalculable. I don’t want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don’t understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don’t understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before
Neil DeGrasse Tyson

46. The delights of self-discovery are always available.
Gail Sheehy

47. Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander Smith

48. The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James

49. The discovery that mass changes with velocity, a discovery made when minute bodies came under consideration, finally forced surrender of the notion that mass is a fixed and inalienable possession of ultimate elements or individuals, so that time is now considered to be their fourth dimension.
John Dewey

50. Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in terms of the human body. Most previous explorations focused their investigations on the mind
Alexander Lowen

51. People who exist at the margins of society are very much like Alice in Wonderland. They are not required to make the tough decision to risk their lives by embarking on an adventure of self-discovery. They have already been thrust beyond the city’s walls that keep ordinary people at a safe distance from the unknown. For at least some outsiders, “alienation” has destroyed traditional presumptions of identity and opened up the mythic hero’s path to the possibility of discovery. What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise their “alienation” as a precious gift of freedom from arbitrary norms that they did not make and did not sanction. At the moment a person questions the validity of the rules, the victim is no longer a victim.
Jamake Highwater

52. Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
Gary Vaynerchuk

53. The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
Charles Kettering

54. In more ancient times the life was simpler, but now the discovery of all these different medicines for curing dyspepsia shows that people are suffering from this disease. In this country we know that there are so many kinds of pills and medicines used. We even have those in India now. These things show that not only in America but in all the countries of the world we have to recourse to artificial means for necessary nutrients because people are not aware of right rules of diet. It is better to follow the right rules of diet in the beginning in order to avoid any kind of artificial medicines later on
Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

55. Just as a new scientific discovery manifests sometimes that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.
Northrop Frye

56. The American writer and dilettante Logan Pearsall Smith once said: ‘Some people think that life is the thing; but I prefer reading.’ When I first came across this, I thought it witty; now I find it—as I do many aphorisms—a slick untruth. Life and reading are not separate activities. The distinction is false (as it is when Yeats imagines a choice between ‘perfection of the life, or of the work’). When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape—into different countries, mores, speech patterns—but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life’s subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.
Julian Barnes

57. Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not
Anonymous

58. Corporate secrets bouncing around a computer system thats open to the world? Hey, that’s fair game and they deserve the embarrassment of its discovery. But using this knowledge to line your pockets or, worse, using insider knowledge to get the information and then calling that hacking is an affront to any of us who hack for the sake of learning
Emmanuel Goldstein

59. Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.
Arthur H. Compton

60. Learning is the discovery that something is possible.
Fritz Perls

61. 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

62. Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
Max Planck

63. If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Isaac Newton