#discover

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything. ↗

— James Boswell

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My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few. ↗

— Terry Brooks

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Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely. ↗

— Pierce Brosnan

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Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

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I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. ↗

— John Burroughs

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You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!. ↗

— Rob Zombie

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Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time. ↗

— John Zorn

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I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered. ↗

— David Chalmers

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