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DISAGREEMENT

see: "COMMUNICATION" for related links


If men would consider not so much wherein they
differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far
less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the
world.
--Joseph Addison (1672—1719)
English essayist, poet, and dramatist.
Attributed in _Journal of the American Osteopathic Association_ [April 1906].

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly
inconsistent with one's own opinion.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
_The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906]
(Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.)

Moment to moment, there are aspects of life that we
like and others that we don't. There are always going
to be people who disagree with you, people who do
things differently, and things that don't work out. If
you fight against this principle of life, you'll spend
most of your life fighting battles.
--Richard Carlson (1961—2006)
American author, psychotherapist, and motivational speaker.
_Don't Sweat the Small Stuff_ [1996]

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which
we differ, than to love one another, for points on which we
agree. The reason perhaps is this: when we find others that
agree with us, we seldom trouble ourselves to confirm that
agreement; but when we chance on those that differ with us,
we are zealous both to convince, and to convert them. Our
pride is hurt by the failure, and disappointed pride engenders
hatred.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CXXVII [1821 ed.]

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition
from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of
understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to
conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express
his opinions courageously and honestly.
--Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist.
Communication of March 19, 1940 to Morris Raphael Cohen,
as quoted in Otto Nathan & Heinz Norden (eds.)
_Einstein on Peace_ [1968].

Men often oppose a thing merely because they
have no agency in planning it, or because it may
have been planned by those whom they dislike.
--Alexander Hamilton (1755or57—1804)
New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention,
major author of the _Federalist Papers_, and first
secretary of the Treasury of the United States [1789-1795].
_The Federalist_ # 70 [1787-1788]

[Woman to her lawyer:]
Just another of our many disagreements. He wanted
a no-fault divorce, whereas I would prefer to have
the bastard crucified.
--J.B. Handelsman (b. 1940)
American cartoonist.
Cartoon caption, "New Yorker" [25 August 1997]

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742—1799)
German scientist and drama critic.
"Notebook E", Aphorism 11 _Aphorisms_ [1765—1799]

Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow,
but adults conceal it and infants show it.
--Ogden Nash (1902—1971)
American writer of humorous poetry.
In _The Bad Parents' Garden of Verse_ [1936].

Agreeing to differ.
[Latin: Discors concordia.]
--Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.—18 A.D.)
Roman poet.
"Metamorphoses" I. 433

I do my thing, and you do your thing.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations
And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you and I am I,
And if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful;
If not, it can't be helped.
--Fritz Perls (1893—1970)
German-born American psychiatrist.
"Gestalt Therapy Verbatim" [1969]

A man takes contradiction and advice much more easily
than people think, only he will not bear it when violently
given, even though it be well founded. Hearts are flowers;
they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in
the violent downpour of rain.
--Jean Paul Richter (1763—1825)
German novelist.
Attributed in Henry Southgate (ed.)
_Many Thoughts of Many Minds_, p. 61 [1862, 3rd edition].

Once the realization is accepted that even between
the closest human beings infinite distances continue
to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up,
if they succeed in loving the distance between them
which makes it possible for each to see the other
whole against a wide sky.
--Rainer Maria Rilke (1875—1926)
Austro-German poet.
_Letters Of Rainer Maria Rilke_, vol. 1 [1945]

The ae half of the warld
thinks the tither daft.
--Sir Walter Scott (1771—1832)
Scottish novelist and poet.
"Redgauntlet" [1824]

'That was excellently observed,' say I, when I read a passage in
an author where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ,
there I pronounce him to be mistaken.
--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish poet and satirist.
_Thoughts on Various Subjects_ [1706]

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Anthony Trollope (1815—1882)
British novelist.

Michael Sadleir describes Trollope as one
'scarcely giving himself time to think, but
spluttering and roaring out an instantly-
formed opinion couched in the very strongest
of terms.' At a meeting of surveyors, Trollope
suddenly fired at the speaker who preceded
him, 'I disagree with you entirely. What was
it you said?'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
--William Wrigley, Jr. (1861—1932)
American industrialist.
Quoted in "Reader's Digest" [July 1940].

similarly:

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless.
If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.
--attributed to Darryl F. Zanuck (1902—1979)
American producer, writer, actor and director who headed 20th Century Fox.
23 October 1949, "Sayings of the Week" _Observer_, as quoted in David Crystal
& Hilary Crystal _Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages_ [2000].

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cavil (verb) ['kζ-vκl]
To object on frivolous or petty grounds, to quibble.

foofaraw [FOO-fuh-raw], noun:
1. Excessive or flashy ornamentation or decoration.
2. A fuss over a matter of little importance.



DISAPPOINTMENT

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see: "UNHAPPINESS"


When I was 4, I learned that Santa Claus
didn't exist. When I was 9, I found out
that my father didn't know everything.
When the Dodgers left I was 20, and
things have never been the same.
--Marty Adler, Dodger fan, on the team's
move from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in
1957, quoted in "American Way" magazine [15 October 1986] [GBAQ].

Women suffer more from disappointment than men,
because they have more of faith and are naturally
more credulous.
--Marguerite de Valois (1553—1615)
Queen of France and Navarre.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Edge-Tools of Speech_, p. 108 [1886].

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
--George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819—1880)
English novelist.
_Silas Marner_, ch. 18 [1861]

Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the debris
are friendship, glory, and love; the shores of existence are
strewn with them.
--Germaine de Staλl (1766—1817)
French writer.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Pearls of Thought_, p. 65 [1882].

In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in
the middle years when we realize that we are never going to
reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves. And in
the end, most of us reconcile ourselves, with what grace we
can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense of
partial failure, our less-than-ideal families—and even
our politicians!
--Adlai E. Stevenson (1900—1965)
American Democratic politician.
_Call to Greatness_ [1954]

A man has no business to be depressed by a
disappointment, anyway; he ought to make
up his mind to get even.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court_, ch. 22 [1889]

Things said or done long years ago,
Or things I did not do or say
But thought that I might say or do,
Weigh me down, and not a day
But something is recalled,
My conscience or my vanity appalled.
--William Butler Yeats (1865—1939)
Irish poet and dramatist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
"Vacillation" in _The Winding Stair and Other Poems_ [1933].



DISASTER

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see: "UNHAPPINESS" for related links

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[Of the Black Death:]
And no bells tolled and nobody wept no matter
what his loss because almost everyone expected
death ... and people said and believed, 'This is
the end of the world.'
--Agnolo di Tura, chronicler of Siena in central Italy [1348]
in M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_, p. 285 [2004].

& see:

Balavignus, a Jewish physician, inhabitant of Thonon,
was arrested at Chillon, since he had been found in the
neighborhood. He was put on the rack for a short time
and when taken down confessed after much hesitation
that about ten weeks before Rabbi Jacob of Toledo ...
sent him by a Jewish boy ... a powder sewn into a thin
leather pouch accompanied by a letter, commanding
him, on pain of excommunication, and by requiring his
obedience to the law, to throw this poison into the larger
and more frequented wells of the town of Thonon.
--Confession [15 September 1348], in the Castle of Chillon,
Savoy, southeast France, by Jews arrested in Neustadt, in
M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_, p. 286 [2004].
Cohan & Major explain:
The blame for the plague was thus attached to the Jews,
and Balavignuswas one of ten who confessed 'his design
of destroying and extirpating all Christians'. Later centuries
would use the word pogrom for just such violent outbreaks
of anti-Semitism.

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[An emergency call to 911:]
This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn't
have McNuggets, I wouldn’t have given my money, and
now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don’t want
one. This is an emergency.
--Latreasa L. Goodman
One of three 911 calls she made to Florida police to insist upon a refund
when her local McDonalds was out of nuggets, msn.com [4 March 2009].

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[Of the Hindenburg:]
Oh, the humanity!
--Herbert Morrison (1905—1989)
American broadcaster.

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debacle (noun) [di-'bah-kl]
A sudden rush of water and debris such as results
from dam failure or the breaking up of river ice
in the spring; any sudden total collapse or rout.



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DISCIPLINE

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see: "PARENTING"
see: "RULES"
see: "SELF-IMPROVEMENT"
see: "HOME & FAMILY" for other related links


Children should be seen and not heard.
--John Quincy Adams (1767—1848)
6th President of the United States.
_Memoirs_ [1820]

Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe;
He still remember'd that he once was young.
--Dr John Armstrong (1709—1779)
Scottish poet.
_The Art of Preserving Health_, bk. IV [1744]

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but
it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
--attributed to Buddha [Gautama] (c. 6th—4th century B.C.)
Founder of Buddhism.

Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.
--Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832—1898)
English writer and logician.
_Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_, ch. 6 [1865]

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance.
If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with
a child. . . . If you have never been hated by your child, you
have never been a parent.
--Bette Davis (Ruth Elizabeth Davis) (1908—1989)
American actress.
_The Lonely Life: An Autobiography_ [1962]

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Diogenes (?412—323 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.

One day a woman, accompanied by her small
son, came to Diogenes, complaining that the
boy was rude and ill behaved and asking what
she should do to improve his conduct. Diogenes'
answer was to strike the mother in the face.

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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The thing that impresses me most about
America is the way parents obey their
children.
--Edward VIII (1894—1972)
King [1936], afterwards, the Duke of Windsor.
In "Look" [5 March 1937].

Let thy child's first lesson be Obedience,
and the second will be what thou wilt.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1739]

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"The Stern Parent"

Father heard his children scream,
So he threw them in the stream,
Saying, as he drowned the third,
"Children should be seen, not heard."

--Harry Graham (1874—1936)
British writer and journalist.
_Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes_ [1899]

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Hold their noses to grindstone.
--John Heywood (1497—1580)
English playwright.
_Proverbs_ [1546]

It is ... sometimes easier to head an institute
for the study of child guidance than it is to
turn one brat into a decent human being.
--Joseph Wood Krutch (1893—1970)
American critic and naturalist.
"Whom Do We Picket Tonight?", essay in _Harper's Magazine_ [1950].

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The sentry who is inattentive will be killed.

The arrow-messenger who gets drunk will be
killed.

Anyone who harbors a fugitive will be killed.

The warrior who unlawfully appropriates booty
for himself will be killed.

The leader who is incompetent will be killed.

--Laws, late 12th and early 13th centuries;
in Michael Hoang _Genghis Khan_ [1988]

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I would not have children much beaten for their faults,
because I would not have them think bodily pain the
greatest punishment.
--John Locke (1632—1704)
English political and educational philosopher.
_Some Thoughts Concerning Education_ [1693]

Parents deserve reproof when they refuse to
benefit their children by severe discipline.
[Latin: Parentes objurgatione digni sunt, qui
nolunt liberos suos severa lege proficere.]
--Gaius Petronius Arbiter (?—AD 66)
Roman writer and senator.
Attributed in J. K. Hoyt & Anna L. Ward (eds.)
_The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_, p. 575 [4th ed., 1882].

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Terry Pratchett (b. 1948)
English science fiction writer, revisits Hansel and Gretel
in this exerpt in _The Light Fantastic_:

[begin snippet — inside the Gingerbread house]

"Have a bit more table," said Rincewind.

"No thanks, I don't like marzipan," said Twoflower.
"Anyway, I'm sure it's not right to eat other people's
furniture."

"Don't worry," said Swires. "The old witch hasn't
been seen for years. They say she was done up
good and proper by a couple of young tearaways."

"Kids of today," commented Rincewind.

"I blame the parents," said Twoflower.

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He that by harshness of nature rules his family with
an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns
a nation.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.—65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
Attributed in _Sunday School Helper_, vol. XX, no. 8 [August 1889].

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's
own method of training the young, and homes are very
much as women make them.
--Samuel Smiles (1812—1904)
Scottish author.
_Duty_ [1880]

The price of excellence is discipline. The
cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
---William Arthur Ward (1921—1994)
American college administrator and author.
_Thoughts of a Christian Optimist_ [1968]

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit
of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies
to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done
much to abolish misery from their future lives and
crimes from society.
--Daniel Webster (1782—1852)
American orator and politician.
Quoted in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 135 [1908 ed.].

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cosset [KOSS-it], transitive verb:
To treat as a pet; to treat with excessive indulgence; to pamper.

martinet [mar-t'n-ET], noun:
1. A strict disciplinarian.
2. One who lays stress on a rigid adherence
to the details of forms and methods.
Ex.: He is an unmitigated tyrant, a martinet, the sort of man
who disapproves of his son's eating the morning oatmeal with
sugar -- instead of salt, which he himself prefers.
--David Quammen, "Punishing Natty,"
_New York Times_, [14 April 1985]
A martinet is so called after an officer of that name in the French army under Louis XIV.

mollycoddle (verb) ['mah-li-kah-dκl]
To pamper, unreasonably tolerate a lack of discipline, or overindulge.



DISCONTENT

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see: "COMPLAINING"
see: "UNHAPPINESS"
see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links


'Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, or carry
smiles and sunshine in my face when discontent
sits heavy at my heart.
--Joseph Addison (1672—1719)
English essayist, poet, and dramatist.
_Cato, a Tragedy_, act. I [1712]

One thing only has been lent to youth
and age in common — discontent.
--Matthew Arnold (1822—1888)
English Victorian poet and literary and social critic.
"Youth's Agitations" in _New Poems_ [1867].

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also
of all progress in individuals and in nations.
--Berthold Auerbach (1812—1882)
German novelist.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Edge-Tools of Speech_, p. 108 [1886].

If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows
who have not been satisfied with their condition you
would still be living in caves ... Progress is born of
agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
--Eugene V. Debs (1855—1926)
American socialist leader.
Speech in Girard, Kansas [23 May 1908],
quoted in _Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches_ [1908].

When you don't have any money, the problem
is food. When you have money, it's sex. When
you have both, it's health.
--J. P. Donleavy (b. 1926)
American dramatist and novelist.
_The Ginger Man_ [1955]

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice
for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
_Lives of the Poets_ [1779—1781]

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied
than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates
dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
--John Stuart Mill (1806—1873)
English philosopher and social reformer.
_Utilitarianism_ [1863]

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Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_King Richard III_, I, i [1592—1593]


Past and to come seems best, things present, worst.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
Henry IV, Part 2_, I, iii [1596—1599]

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As long as I have a want, I have a reason
for living. Satisfaction is death.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist
propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.]
_Overruled_ [1916]

The stoical scheme of supplying our
wants, by lopping off our desires,
is like cutting off our feet when we
want shoes.
--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish poet and satirist.
_Thoughts on Various Subjects_ [1711]

That which makes people dissatisfied with their
condition is the chimerical idea they form of the
happiness of others.
--James Thomson (1700—1748)
Scottish poet.
Attributed in _The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated_ [January 1873].

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malaise [muh-LAYZ], noun:
1. A vague feeling of discomfort in the body, as at the onset of illness.
2. A general feeling of depression or unease.

repine, intransitive verb:
1. To feel or express discontent.
2. To long for something.




DISCOVERY

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[QUOTES FOLLOW LINKS]

see:

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS

CHALLENGE

COURAGE

CREATIVITY

CURIOSITY

EXPERIMENT, EXPLORATION

GENETIC ENGINEERING

IMAGINATION

INNOVATION

INVENTION

OBSERVATION

ORIGINALITY

QUESTIONS

RESEARCH

RISK

ROBOTS

SCIENCE

SOUTH POLE

TECHNOLOGY, TELEPHONE

VISION

WONDER

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Don't keep forever on the public road, going only
where others have gone and following one after the
other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track
occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time
you do so you will be certain to find something
that you have never seen before. Of course it will
be a little thing, but do not ignore it. Follow it up,
explore all round it: one discovery will lead to
another, and before you know it you will have
something worth thinking about.
--Alexander Graham Bell (1847—1922)
Scottish-born American audiologist best known
as the inventor of the telephone in 1876.
"Discovery and Invention", an address delivered at
the Friends' School, Washington, D.C. [22 May 1914].

I can't say as ever I was lost, but I
was bewildered once for three days.
--Daniel Boone (1734—1820)
American pioneer who blazed the Wilderness Trail.
Remark [June 1819] quoted in Chester Harding _My Egotistigraphy_ [1866].

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not
ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge.
--Daniel J. Boorstin (1914—2004)
American historian.
In Carol Krucoff, "The 6 O'Clock Scholar" _Wahington Post_ [29 January 1984].

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong,
has been playing at children's games from the beginning,
and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance
for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to
which it is most attached is called 'Keep to-morrow dark,'
[...] The players listen very carefully and respectfully to
all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen
in the next generation. The players then wait until all the
clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go
and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple
tastes, however, it is great fun.
--G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874—1936)
English essayist, novelist, and poet.
_The Napoleon of Notting Hill_ [1904],
ch. 1 "Introductory Remarks on the Art of Prophecy"

It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us
humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have
been the result of chance, rather than of contemplation,
and of accident rather than of design.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CXLII [1820]

None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found
it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an
expert — because no one ever considers himself expert if he really
knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be
done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and
never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient
he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more,
brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment
one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things
become impossible.
--Henry Ford (1863—1947)
American car manufacturer.
_My Life and Work_ [1922]

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
--Andre Gide (1869—1951)
French novelist and critic who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947.
_The Counterfeiters_ [1925]

Who never walks, save where he sees men's tracks
Makes no discoveries.
--Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819—1881)
American novelist, poet, and editor of "Scribner’s Magazine."
"Kathrina: Her Life and Mine", pt. 3 [1867]

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings,
by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the
outer aspects of their lives.
--William James (1842—1910)
American philosopher.
Attributed in Elmer Green & Alyce Green _Beyond Biofeedback_, p. 172 [1978].

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It is certain, says [Columbus], that this is the mainland,
and that I am off Zayton and Quinsay [Shanghai and
Hangchow, both Chinese ports] 100 leagues [about
300 miles] distant more or less from the one and the
other, and this is shown by the sea, which looks
different from what it has been until now.
--Bartolomι de Las Casas (1484—1566)
Spanish priest and historian.
_Diary_ [1530s], in M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.)
_History in Quotations_, p. 324 [2004].
Cohan & Major explain:
Thus on 1 Nov. 1492, coasting Cuba, [Columbus]
decided he was off the Chinese mainland.

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People who have read a good deal rarely make
great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of
laziness, but because invention presupposes an
extensive independent contemplation of things.
--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742—1799)
German scientist and drama critic.
In J. P. Stern's _Lichtenberg: A Doctrine of Scattered Occasions_ [1959],
"Further Excerpts from Lichtenberg's Notebooks".

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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
--Sir Isaac Newton (1642—1727)
English mathematician and physicist.
Letter to Robert Hooke [5 February 1676].


I do not know what I may appear to the world;
but to myself I seem to have been only like a
boy playing on the seashore, and diverting
myself in now and then finding a smoother
pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst
the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered
before me.
--Sir Isaac Newton (1642—1727)
English mathematician and physicist.
Quoted in "Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer" [4 July 1812].

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We were three months and twenty days without
getting any kind of fresh food. We ate biscuit which
was no longer biscuit but its powder; swarming with
worms, for they had eaten what was good. It stank
strongly of rats' urine. We drank yellow water
already putrid for many days ... Rats were sold for
half a ducat apiece ... The gums of both the lower
and upper teeth of some of our men swelled, so that
they could not eat under any circumstances and
therefore died.
--Antonio Pigafetta
_Journal_ [1525], in M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.)
_History in Quotations_, p. 329 [2004].
Cohan & Major note:
An Italian gentleman, Pigafetta went along as a supernumerary and
produced what is by far the most interesting account of [Magellan's]
voyage. 19 men died of scurvy, and another 25 or 30 fell sick.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way
by gradually winning over and converting its opponents:
it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does
happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that
the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from
the beginning.
--Max Plank [Karl Ernst Ludwig] (1858—1947)
German theoretical physicist who originated quantum
theory; winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1918.
_The Philosophy of Physics_ [1936]

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth,
would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold
the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold
the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.
--Marcel Proust (1871—1922)
French novelist.
_Remembrance of Things Past_ [1913—1927]
Vol. V, _The Captive_ [1923], ch. II "The Verdurins Quarrel with M. de Charlus"

What is wanted is not the will to believe,
but the wish to find out, which is its exact
opposite.
--Bertrand Russell (1872—1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate.
"Free Thought and Official Propaganda", lecture
delivered at South Place Institute, London [24 March 1922].

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has
seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
--Albert von Szent-Gyφrgyi (1893—1992)
Hungarian-born biochemist, winner of the 1937 Nobel prize for Medicine.
_The Scientist Speculates_ [1962]

Ah, sweet mystery of life
At last I found thee.
--Rida Johnson Young (1869—1926)
American songwriter.
"Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life" [1910 song]

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descry (transitive verb)
1. To see or make out, esp., something obscured or at a distance.
Example: He descried the house through the thick vegetation.
Syn.: discern, distinguish, sight
2: To find or detect by means of close study or observation.

serendipity (noun)
1. The accidental discovery of something pleasant, valuable, or useful.
2. A natural gift for making pleasant, valuable, or useful discoveries by accident.



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Beware of false prophets, which come to
you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they
are ravening wolves.
--Bible
"Matthew" 7:15

We all wear some disguise, make some professions,
use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being
better than we are; and yet it is not denied that
we have some good intentions and praiseworthy
qualities at bottom.
--William Hazlitt (1778—1830)
English essayist.
_Sketches and Essays_ [1839], "On Cant and Hypocrisy"

Were we to take as much pains to be what we ought,
as we do to disguise what we are, we might appear
like ourselves without being at the trouble of any
disguise at all.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678]

No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
--W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965)
English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.
_The Moon and Sixpence_, ch. 17 [1919]

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dissimulate [dih-SIM-yuh-layt], transitive verb:
1. To conceal under a false appearance.
2. To hide one's feelings or intentions; to put
on a false appearance; to feign; to pretend.


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