Quotes on discovery

“Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men…. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round.”

Gk Chesterton
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“Among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.”

G. K. Chesterton
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“It has often been said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.”

Gk Chesterton
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The Arts Are Not a Way to Make a Living. They Are a Very Human Way of Making Life More Bearable

Kurt Vonnegut
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“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “

Voltaire
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history of this quote “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.” by Voltaire

Voltaire
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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust
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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Marcel Proust
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