Quotes About Discovery

If you look a word up in the dictionary and twenty minutes later you're still wandering around in the dictionary, you probably have the most basic equipment you need to be a poet.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

When we come across a natural style, we are surprised and delighted; for we expected an author, and we find a man.

Nu m-ai fi cautat, daca nu m-ai fi gasit

We never seek things for themselves, but for the search.

This is not the home of truth; it wanders unrecognized among men.

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

The more you search the more you find.

You could pick out what felt surprising in a book or poem and then save it, as long as you also wrote down the name of the person who wrote it first

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead me into some more lit place, some unknown land downriver. I had not even the vaguest notion of the broken world I was living in, what society could do with you.

I could be unraveling wherever I'm traveling, even to foreign shores.

Sometimes the things that you liked the best and that have meant the most to you are the things that meant nothing at all to you when you first heard or saw them.

There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him.

Now, I want you to know that while we watched You discover there was no one true Most ev'rybody really thought It was a childish thing to do Tears of rage, tears of grief Must I always be the thief? Come to me now, you know We're so low And life is brief

Sometimes that's all it takes, the kind of recognition that comes when you're doing the thing for the thing's sake and you're on to something—it's just that nobody recognizes it yet.

A lot of time you have to go down many roads to get where you are going…. The important thing is to keep moving…. Or else to stop by the side of the road every once in a while and build a house. I guess that's about the best thing anyone can do.

Mac picked up a small saw and began cutting. The pathologist made a whimpering sound, like an artist who'd just seen someone take a can of spray paint to his masterpiece. "Yep," Mac said, holding up something small and bloody in his hands. "A transmitter.

You don't decide what your purpose is in life you discover it. Your purpose is your reason for living.

Those who are in the orbit, but nonetheless on the edges, can often be the real discoverers. It was why at times, the journalist, the historian and even the novelist paints the fullest picture of an era

Those who are in the orbit, but nonetheless on the edges, can often be the real discoverers. It is why at times, the journalist, the historian and even the novelist paints the fullest picture of an era.

I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know...

The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains and whip – has always created a passion for us. Black people need to find out. We have to find out Who We Are and Where We Come From.