Discovered

Famous quotes containing the word discovered:

“Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty—necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)

“Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coast ... and tell me if it looks like a discovered and settled country, and not rather, for the most part, like a desolate island, and No-Man’s Land.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.”
—Jay Dratler, U.S. screenwriter, Samuel Hoffenstein (1889–1947)