Famous quotes containing the word discover:
“One who does not know how to discover the pathway to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, really show very little relation to each other; never meet and measure each other: one prevails now, all buzz and din; and the other prevails then, all infinitude and paradise; and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Since you know you cannot see yourself
So well as by reflection, I, your glass,
Will modestly discover to yourself
That of yourself which yet you know not of.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)