Quotes About Discovery

Why do they call it research if I've only done it this one time?

The trick is to never stop looking. There's always another secret.

There were books involved.

Wasing the where of what

WATCH, the Rider said. YOU WANTED TO KNOW WHAT WAS BEYOND THE NEXT HILL. SEE THEM ALL.

The part the stories leave out," Tress said as the Sorceress's runes formed into a vibrant wall, "is everything that comes before. You see, I've discovered that it's all right to need help. So long as you've lived your life as the kind of person who deserves to be rescued.

Sometimes we just have to wait long enough, Mistress," he said. "Then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing.

You never know how much you'll like something until you try it out.

If nobody asked questions, then we would never learn anything.

Sometimes you need to accept what you've lost, then move forward. Then you can instead realize what you've gained.

Journey Before Destination.

Ruin still used Reen's voice—it was familiar, something that had always seemed a part of her. Discovering that it belonged to that thing …it was like finding out that her reflection really belonged to someone else, and that she'd never actually seen herself.

There's always another secret.

We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.

Now, it's finally time to reveal some secrets.

There was more to all of this than he'd ever known, and because of that he had a reason to live. Perhaps more importantly, he had a reason to stay sane.

Journey before destination," Dalinar said. "It cannot be a journey if it doesn't have a beginning.

It had been like discovering that Santa Claus was secretly a Nazi.

At each corner, you expect to turn and see the withered, skeletal remains of some poor researcher who got lost in the stacks and never found his way out.

So... wait. You're saying that on the other side?where I obviously believed in the other side?I realized that if I Returned I wouldn't believe in the other side, so I came back with the purpose of discovering faith in the other side, which I only lost because I Returned in the first place?" Llarimar paused. Then he smiled. "That last one breaks down a little bit in the face of logic, doesn't it?

Because every path we walk changes us, Spensa

A scholar knows not to waste time rediscovering information already known.

no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.

After living with the enemy," I admitted, "I learned it wasn't so simple. I didn't discover that their cause was just, mind you. Only that most of them weren't evil. They were merely people. Following, by accident, someone who was evil.