#discovers

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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Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence. ↗

— Voltaire

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