Quotes About Discovery

Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time

When I escape from my cage of conformity, I grow wings to fly in search of truth and beauty.

In every argument there is a discovery of truth and a bed of success.

The awareness that seeks to know is the very object of its own seeking.

Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.

We are the universe seeking truth.

Time reveals the truth.

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.

There was a time when I could put the palm of my hand flat on the front of a tattered paperback called The Dying Earth and feel the magic seeping through the cardboard: Turjan of Miir, Liane the Wayfarer, T'sais, Chun the Unavoidable. Nobody I knew had so much as heard of that book, but I knew it was the finest book in the world. (Castle of Days, 211)

We'd pull into a town," Haynes said, "and we didn't know where the clubs were. We'd literally pull over somebody and say, 'Hey, where do the queers hang out? Where's the college area?

That's where I started to discover that I had an ego," says Barlow. "I just became so involved with writing my own songs and really getting into my own sound of things. Just getting totally self-involved. It was pretty great.

That's where I started to discover that I had an ego," says Barlow. "I just became so involved with writing my own songs and really getting into my own sound of things. Just getting totally self-involved. It was pretty great. So when I played for Dinosaur, I was able to play for Dinosaur—do my thing and be quiet.

Mr. and Mrs. Brown first met Paddington on a railway platform. In fact, that was how he came to have such an unusual name for a bear, for Paddington was the name of the station.

PADDINGTON STEPS OUT

Hvad udad tabes, skal indad vindes. (What was lost without will be found within.)

And that was when you realized the fire was inside you all the time. And that was the miracle. Just that.

The girl was a labyrinth to him; only by chance and error did he ever stumble blindly into her heart.

Childhood is a branch of cartography.

It would please him well enough to amount to no more in the end than a single great organ of detection, reaching into blankness for a clue.

His bit of pencil turned up in the seat pocket of his short trousers, but as the search for the pad continued without issue a crease appeared in the boy's domed brow. He patted himself up and down until filaments of honey floss formed between his fingertips and pockets, coating him in a gossamer down. The old man watched helpless as the boy, with mounting agitation, spun threads of loss from his palms and fingertips.

A]dventures befall the unadventuresome as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result -- and have been since at least the time of Odysseus -- of the fatal act of leaving one's home, or trying to return to it again. All adventure happens in that damned and magical space, wherever it may be found or chanced upon, which least resembles one's home.

It reassured me that, if nothing else in life, at least I'd fulfilled my earliest ambition simply to wander far afield, in spirit if not in space, from the place of my birth.

Taking pains, working hard, not flaunting his or her chops so much as relying on them, the pop artisan teeters on a fine fulcrum between the stern, sell-the-product morality of the workhorse and the artist's urge to discover a pattern in, or derive a meaning from, the random facts of the world.