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discovery

«Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought»
«Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.»
«A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.»
«I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know»
«It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm»
«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.»
«Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.»
«Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some»
«He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.»
Author: Samuel Smiles | Keywords: discovery
«Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young»