Quote by Auguste Rodin

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

Summary

This quote highlights the perspective of the speaker in being humble and acknowledging that they do not create anything new, but rather uncover or bring to light what already exists in the world. It emphasizes the idea that creativity is not about generating something entirely original, but rather about recognizing and exploring the existing ideas and concepts that may have been overlooked or forgotten. The quote suggests that innovation and invention are rooted in the process of rediscovery and reinterpretation.

Topics

Discovery

By Auguste Rodin

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a w

With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.

Grace Revolution Destruction

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Marriage

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for mo

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Blame

The new so called morality has too often the old immorality

The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.

Morals

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in sc

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

Richard Dawkins

Truth

Everything has beauty but not everyone can see it

Everything has beauty but not everyone can see it

Beauty

Maturing is realizing how many things donâ€™t require your c

Maturing is realizing how many things donâ€™t require your comment.

Maturity

Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,

Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Brook

Rivers

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words h

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

Change

My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high

My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.

Teacher

I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that ord

I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.

Famous

Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existenc

Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Life Action Theend