| "Away back in that time-in 1492-there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man. . . What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then . . . I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me." »Chitto Harjo |
| "Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected." »Oscar Wilde |
| "What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up." »Oscar Wilde |
| "A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex." »Aldous Huxley |
| "The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God." »Sri da Avabhas |
| "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them." »Galileo Galilei |
| "What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it." »Margot Asquith |
| "Real solutions are discovered only where they actually exist Within the individual's own essence." »Unknown |
| "I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." »Charles Robert Darwin |
| "I discovered that anything can go right will go right! The wrong cannot last forever Id like to think of my discovery as the Anti-Murphys Law" »Med Yones |
| "I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room." »Blaise Pascal |
| "How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend." »William Rotsler |
| "Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own." »Sydney Harris |
| "The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered." »Tina Turner |
| "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." »Helen Keller |
| "I have discovered, in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats." »Bill Veeck |
| "I bet what happened was, they discovered fire and invented the wheel on the same day. Then, that night, they burned the wheel." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them." »Christopher Darlington Morley |
| "In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment." »Pliny the Elder |
| "Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or next year we'll understand that nothing is wasted, that in the economy of our universe even a weed is simply a flower whose use has yet to be discovered." »Mort Crim |
| "It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character." »Dr. Dale E. Turner |
| "Inside each and every one of us is a person that no one knows. A person, should you take the time to look,is waiting to be discovered, Wanting you to take notice. Take a few minutes every day and sit down to chat to this person. Who knows what you may learn" »Neill MacRae |
| "Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk about freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered they were not Indians at all, but dirty clothes hampers." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs." »Maurice Wilkes |
| "As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest." »Bill Cosby |
| "We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all." »Eve Denise Curie |
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