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"He who never walks except where he sees other men's tracks will make no discoveries."
Unknown, Source on Imitation
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"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
Milne, A. A. on Organization
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"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
Smith, Alexander on Love
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"All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking."
Parkhurst, Charles H. on Thoughts and Thinking
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"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge."
Boorstin, Daniel J. on Obstacles
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"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
Gyorgyi, Albert on Invention and Inventor
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"The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures."
Davy, Sir Humphrey on Failure
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"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."
Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert on Discovery
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"Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance."
Durant, William J. on Education
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"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
Joyce, James on Mistakes
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"A man's errors are his portals of discovery."
Joyce, James on Mistakes
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"He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery."
Smiles, Samuel on Mistakes
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"The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery."
Lichtenberg, Georg C. on New World
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"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."
Doren, Mark Van on Teachers and Teaching
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"Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries."
Kundera, Milan on Critics and Criticism
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"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards."
Koestler, Arthur on Originality
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"But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
Melville, Herman on Originality
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"Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."
Mill, John Stuart on Originality
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I'm male and made my book on 26th April 2008.

