Quotes About Discovery

You shall know all that I know, but I would prefer that you should come at the truth by your own efforts — not by my leading you by the hand.

Little by little the head emerged, preserved by the sludge for about 2,500 years. There it was–the biggest ivory head ever found: a soft, pale brownish colour, the hair black, the faintly coloured lips with the enigmatic smile of one of the maidens of the Akropolis. The Lady of the Well–the Mona Lisa, as the Iraqi Director of Antiquities insisted on calling her–she has her place now in the new museum at Baghdad: one of the most exciting things ever to be found. There

There is a great charity always to the dead. Do you know what I should like this minute? I should like to find someone who knew Elizabeth Barnard and who does not know she is dead! Then, perhaps, I should hear what is useful to me—the truth.

I had just arrived at these conclusions when the delightful husky laugh from the stage was echoed from behind me. I turned my head sharply. In the seat immediately behind mine, leaning forward with her lips slightly parted, was the subject of the present imitation—Lady Edgware, better known as Jane Wilkinson.

All this began with a rucksack.

As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

Can love grow infinitely? each day I feel my love for him push its roots into my soul. I rest in his arms, so close that I can feel his heartbeat as though it were my own,and I wonder that just four short months ago I did not even know him.

A story can start from the oddest things: a magic lamp, a conversation overheard, a shadow moving on a wall.

I'm taken over by this trunk. I'm practically living inside it. When I read the journals I feel as if I'm there, a hundred years ago. I'm putting together the whole picture and I know everything that happened and wasn't written down - Amal, p. 133

Seek knowledge even if it's in MACS0647-JD.

And some look through a broken spyglass onto the horizon in search for gold

God never abandoned you. He just pushes for you to discover Him.

The mind is, by far, the most complex tool ever created. The day we'll discover every minutia of its inner workings is the day we'll know everything there is to know about this universe.

The path less taken disinterests me while the path frequently taken appalls me. I'd rather find a path never taken before

As Oscar Wilde put it, Experience is the name we give to our mistakes. No no, Oscar, darl: Experience is the name of the whole darn game.

Karl was no glamour boy. But even during this first meeting I discovered he had something better. The kind of intelligence that's more attractive than physical beauty.

No, but still, the fact is, at least this is how it seems to me, everybody has to learn about it [love] from scratch for themselves. And we all make the same mistakes time and again while we're learning.

ma chère penchons sur les filons géologiques (my dear let us lean on geographical veins)

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.

When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.

Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.

Maybe what we can do when we feel overwhelmed is to start small. Start with what we have loved as kids and see where that leads us.