A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922Quotes
I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCHow gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCScience is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905