#discover

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#feminism #identity #independence #living-vicariously #self-discovery

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud. ↗

— Oliver Tambo

#africa #corner #derive #discovery #globe

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#common sense #creeping #die #discover #late

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it. ↗

— Louis Agassiz

#been #before #believed #bible #conflicts

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#discovery #wrong

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#itself #made #most #science #scientists

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it. ↗

— Eduardo Chillida

#express #found #inside #must #nobody

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

#art #assisting #discovery #teaching

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#found #friends #his #home #man

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. ↗

— Max Ernst

#decorative #discovery #either #every #every time