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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.

The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.

No man can discover his own talents.

I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves.

Then, you were supposed to discover the city, where they were. But because somebody like skeletons. And that they discovered that they were at a cheap price, we used too many skeletons all over the place, and the public got the wrong message.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view.

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.