Famous quotes containing the word discover:
“Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)