Found Quotes

That part of the Englishman’s nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

I found I have to stay painting.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.

Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.

Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older.

In order to ease my condition I took up Euclid’s Elements and read for the first time his doctrine of ratio, which I found treated there in a manner entirely new to me.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.