Discovery Mints
The events in our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order ... the continuous thread of revelation.
Eudora Welty
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde
One does not discover new lands without concenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide
For nothing is ever what you expect it will be, nor is it quite like anything else.
Joyce Carol Oates
The real work of our lives is to know who we are.
"Zen At Work" author Les Kaye
All we can expect from one another is new and interesting information--there are no answers.
Author Margaret Wheatley
Never take know for an answer.
Poet-Philosopher Jonathan Williams
Evolution is chaos with feedback.
Joseph Ford, author of Chaos
All are nothing but flowers in a flowering universe.
Nakagawa Soen-Roshi
Life if trying things to see if they work.
Ray Bradbury
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is, infinite.
William Blake
Fitness is ... the ability of a species to play a coherent role in the web of ecological processes.
R. Ulanowicz, author of Growth And Development
We can only know what we know.
Maudie Holm
The first step toward wisdom is mastering the obvious.
David Johnson
You can't live without an eraser.
Anthropologist Gregory Bateson
Curiosity is my mantra. It is also my profession. Curiosity offers novel lenses for looking at the world. And the most high-powered lens I've discovered is variation.
Author, Tom Peters
Theory is when you know everything and nothing is working. Organization is when nothing is working and everyone knows why. Practice is when everything is working and no one knows why.
Anonymous
"Take off your pants." "Why?" "In my experience, men are better listeners when they're not wearing pants."
Dialogue from the movie "Milk Money"
It's what you learn after you know it all that really matters.
Wise Guy, Rick Warger
You begin to live the moment you realize that anything is possible.
I don't need to know how they put the basketball together to make it work.
Sharon Hamilton, Picker International
If you don't do anything, you learn nothing.
Ray Magliozzi, NPR's Car Talk
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman
I get paid to be awake.
Watts Wacker, Futurist
In this company, you''ll be fired for not making mistakes.
Former Time Warner CEO Steve Ross
I don't think that any great issue ever gets resolved. I think we outgrow them.
Jean Houston, visionary author
Curiosity is the crack in the door that allows in new possibilities.
Joyce Wycoff, Innovation leader
Don’t plan your company's future; adapt.
Stan Davis & Christopher Meyer, authors of Blur
Things are not what they seem, nor are they otherwise.
Zen saying
The learning organization is built on curiosity, forgiveness, trust, and togetherness.
Author, Charles Handy
This is part of what I consider dialogue--for people to realize what is on each other's minds without coming to any conclusions or judgements.
Physicist, David Bohm
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Poet, Kahlil Gibran
Our most radical drive is the drive to raise questions.
Author, Michael Novak
I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.
Vocal artist, Grace Slick
The only true wisdom in knowing that you know nothing.
Bill, "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
Writer James Thurber
The real voyage of discovery comes not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Writer Marcel Proust
If it is in my highest good and the highest good for all life everywhere, let me learn.
Aboriginal morning prayer
Culture is what we fall back on when there are no instructions.
Bay Networks CEO David House
All life is an experiment.
Writer-philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the student is ready, the teacher appears.
Zen proverb
The whole of life lies in the verb seeing.
Teilhard de Chardin
Computers are useless. They only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
I've decided that the only reason I get up in the morning is because I'm curious. It seems to be my most fundamental driving force.
Dilbert Creator Scott Adams
always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
e.e. cummings.
In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.
Author, Eric Hofer
We need great intelligence to live, to live our daily life, because it is only intelligence that can possibly bring about a total revolution in our psyche, in the very core of our being.
Philosopher, J. Krishnamurti
The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.
Author, Kurt Vonnegut
Discovery follows discovery; each both raising and answering questions; each ending a long search; and each providing new instruments for a new search.
Scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer
The larger the island of knowledge, the greater the shoreline of wonder.
Writer, Ralph Sockman
The best learning takes place through play.
Author Arie de Geus
You can't be an effective teacher unless you're a constant learner.
Fairfax VA teacher Philip Bigler
Reflection is the opposite of blame.
Writer Otto Sharmer
Truth is completely spontaneous; lies have to be taught.
Philosopher-scientist R. Buckminster Fuller
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
Author Thomas Merton
The creator, like a spiritual seeker, needs to be led not by certainty but by questioning -- a questioning that is so intense that it is also an engagement, an entering in.
Writer, Rainer Maria Rilke
The aim of life is appreciation.
Writer, G.K. Chesterton
The more you know, the less you need.
Australian Aboriginal saying
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel Boorstin
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