Quotes About Discovery

Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.

I just want them to discover something they can do that makes them contented and feeling as if they are doing something worth doing.

What is it, my dear?" asked John, putting a hand on hers. "I might know what it is," she said, a little breathlessly. "I never thought all that delving into Celtic legend was going to come in handy quite so soon. I think it might be a Fomorian!

You marry who you think your beloved is, and then discover who they really are over the years. It's that discovery that makes a marriage work.

his nose in the door and

Discovering the power in praise was one of the most exciting experiences I'd ever had; yet every time I wanted to share it with someone, it was as if God was saying: "Hold it. This isn't the time.

what haunts the heart will, when it is found, leap foremost, blinding the eye and leaving the main of Life in darkness.

Imagination runs most surely over land that it knows.

Her need for love had never been fulfilled; her love for others had never been suspected, or wanted. Rich as a dusky orchard, she had never been discovered. Her green boughs had been spread, but no travellers came and rested in their shade nor tasted their sweet fruit.

Three words that are the beating heart behind why many explorers or adventurers do what they do. 'Because it's there.

There are few greater feelings than finding out you can achieve more, and endure more, than you had previously imagined, and it's only when we are tested that we realize just how brightly we can shine.

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

There's something delicious about writing those first few words of a story. You can never quite tell where they will take you. Mine took me here, where I belong.

But round the end of a cucumber frame, whom should he meet but Mr. McGregor!

The collie-dog Kep met her coming out, What are you doing with those onions? Where do you go every afternoon by yourself, Jemima Puddle-duck? Jemima

He led the way to a very retired, dismal-looking house amongst the fox-gloves. It

everything he broke. He found a crooked sixpence under the hearth-rug; and upon Christmas Eve he and Hunca Munca stuffed it into one

He took a wrong turn—several wrong turns, and was quite lost. It

I didn't know how I'd love you, when I walked into your life. Now I have a heart I cannot keep . . .

There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.

When we do this thing, we admit failure. We admit fear—yes, terror. We are terrified of a new idea, a new scientific discovery. The government of the world, the protectors of peace and stability, must stoop to exiling some of the world's finest minds. This is a horrible state of affairs. Truly

When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.

In all of these instances he appears to be concerned with the intrinsic value of the security and more particularly with the discovery of discrepancies between the intrinsic value and the market price.

And as we came among the houses we saw how large a town it was, larger than any we had yet seen, and were fll of admiration. It was so green with vegetation that it looked like a garden; and its streets were so full of men and women who had some out to see us that we gave thanks to God for the discovery of such a country.