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Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. ↗

— Norman Douglas

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What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work. ↗

— Emil Nolde

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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great. ↗

— Edgar Quinet

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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. ↗

— Leo Rosten

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One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp. ↗

— Ed Wood

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A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. ↗

— James Allen

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Time discovers truth. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. ↗

— M. C. Escher

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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. ↗

— John Cage

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The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

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