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Quotes About Discovery

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
~ Ezra Pound
Strange is it not That of the myriads who before us pass'd the Door of darkness through, not one returns to tell us of the Road, which to discover, we must travel to.
~ F Scott
No buscar ningún destino, ni mucho menos un destino feliz (...) prestando atención a lo que se ENCUENTRA , y no a lo que se BUSCA
~ Félix de Azúa
The whole history of physics proves that a new discovery is quite likely lurking at the next decimal place.
~ F. K. Richtmeyer
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the end, the satisfaction which all of us seek, it seems, can come only from our discovering that we really have molded our life into whatever we want it to be.
~ F. Sionil Jose
How did I find myself here? Me—the man who wanted to walk around the world? On foot, no less. I wanted to be Passepartout, a traveller with little luggage, hopping from one train to another, a Thomas Cook, an Ibn Battuta. Where is Xanadu?
~ Fadia Faqir
How did I find myself here? Me—the man who wanted to walk around the world? On foot, no less. I wanted to be Passepartout, a traveller with little luggage, a Thomas Cook, an Ibn Battuta. Where is Xanadu?
~ Fadia Faqir
And did you find the safe Leo mentioned? Is it already open?" Eli's lips twitched. "Yes. And not yet. I thought about blowing it up, but it might make a mess of the room.
~ Faith Hunter
You never know how far you can travel until you start walking.
~ Faith Hunter
Have stakes, will travel
~ Faith Hunter
traces blood.
~ Faith Hunter
much older than you knew
~ Faith Martin
Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.
~ Fanny Burney
Originally tasked with finding out why wolves were slaughtering caribou, Mowat instead discovered that wolves are family-oriented creatures with complex behaviors, not the bloodthirsty beasts they were thought to be. Never Cry Wolf is credited with changing the public perception of wolves and challenging the hunter and government
~ Farley Mowat
Life was a blank page written in invisible ink, a tale all told, just waiting to be deciphered.
~ Faye Kellerman
slightly agape, the hair pulled off the face. The woman appeared to be around forty. Even without benefit of color, he had seen enough postmortem photos to know what he was studying. "Rina
~ Faye Kellerman
Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
~ Federico Fellini
Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
The Little Mute Boy" The little boy was looking for his voice. (The king of the crickets had it.) In a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice. I do not want it for speaking with; I will make a ring of it so that he may wear my silence on his little finger In a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice. (The captive voice, far away, put on a cricket's clothes.)
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Empezaría a pensar que me enorgullecería más, si descubrir una verdad o hacer una cosa bella; yo me quedaría con las dos cosas, como si me pusiera dos trajes: un día uno de profesor de psicología y otro de literato.
~ Felisberto Hernández
I was in the situation of someone who has assumed, all his life, that madness was on eway, and suddenly in its grip, discovers that it is not only different from the way he'd imagined but that the person suffering from it is someone else, and that this someone else is not interested in finding out what madness is like: he is simply immersed in it, or it has descended on him, and that's that.
~ Felisberto Hernández