Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.
William Lamb Melbourne

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.
Anna Quindlen

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
H. L. Mencken

No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.
Henry Peach Robinson

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller

No, I was going to college and got discovered.
Jay Hernandez

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Sydney J. Harris

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
Eduardo Chillida

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
Sophocles

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.
Julien Benda

On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country.
William Henry Ashley

On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.
John Dyer

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.
Rick Springfield

Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.
Michael Ondaatje

One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules.
Roald Hoffmann

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.
Trevor Nunn

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
Jean Rostand

One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.
Dave Van Ronk

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.
Beverly Cleary

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
Edward de Bono