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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

—Francis Bacon, 1605

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

—Edith Wharton, 1924

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

—Karl Kraus, 1909

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

—Albert Einstein, 1936

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

—Anthony Trollope, 1859

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1911

The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.

—John Steinbeck, 1941

Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.

—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BC

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

—Emily Dickinson, 1876
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