Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851
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One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCOne sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909