Famous quotes containing the word discover:
“Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn’t a God.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)
“Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Whenever we discover a dislike in us, toward any one, we should ever be a little suspicious of ourselves.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)