Discovered

Famous quotes containing the word discovered:

“From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)

“Even more important than the discovery of Columbus, which we are gathered together to celebrate, is the fact that the general government has just discovered women.”
—Bertha Honore Potter Palmer (1849–1918)

“What is to be taught I learn; what is to be discovered I seek; what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)