#disco

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing. ↗

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 #collective #confessions #crime #discovery

Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#cause #change #closely #commission #connected

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again. ↗

— Josef Albers

#basic #cases #color #continually #different

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#become #catch #cold #discover #grow

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it. ↗

— Mary Astell

#assist #attainment #courted #difficulties #discouragements

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#discovered #fool #neighbors #people

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#discoverers #ill #land #nothing #sea

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#bedrock #blinded #could #discourage #faith

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement. ↗