Quotes About Discovery

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

I believe that there is truth to be found inside every person, but that very few people find it because it is dark inside, and deeply hidden, and the trees grow thickly.

Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child.

No story was just a story, though. It was a suitcase stuffed with secrets.

Kate Grenville

Until a thing was seen, could it be said to exist? And if his eye through the telescope were the one that brought a certain star into existence, did not that make him a creator?

Kate Grenville

For the next thirteen-plus hours, I stared out the window at the passing towns and countryside. All those lives. All those untold stories and private dramas. There was something so beautiful and sad about it. I felt weirdly emotional, like I was running away from home, but also running to a new home.

Last year I discovered that there are secrets to being joyful. … I saw that it is good to be present in good places… [and] it is the small things you do daily which comprise your life and make it meaningful… [and] the third idea I have forgotten. It will have to wait. A perfect illustration of ageing.

his shoulder and ducked into the cave. He called, "Honey, I'm home!" I crept closer to the mouth of the cave. A terrible damp smell came from inside. I took a last breath of fresh air and plunged in after Typhon. In the dim light I spied a second monster. She was big, but nowhere near Typhon's size.

drove up to earth.

Who's to say? Life is not, as we are taught, a matter of seeking answers, but rather learning which are the questions we should ask.

Life is not, as we are taught, a matter of seeking answers, but rather learning which are the questions we should ask.

Pas a pas, se va luenh. Step by step, we make our way.

poet Taylor Mali—that 'changing your mind is one of the best ways of finding out whether or not you still have one'.

The possibility of shaking off old mental models is enticing, but the quest for new ones comes with caveats. First, always remember that 'the map is not the territory', as the philosopher Alfred Korzybski put it: every model can only ever be a model, a necessary simplification of the world, and one that should never be mistaken for the real thing. Second, there is no correct pre-analytic vision, true paradigm or perfect frame out there to be discovered.

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.

Devote a year to sampling tea foods and condiments from around the world

had found a career they loved not by contemplating what would turn them on but by bumping into it someplace out in the world.

by researching, talking to people, etc.), and see which area not only fits well but also could pay off.

He looked at the sky once more. Men had gone out there, he thought in wonder, and couldn't think why. Singly and in small groups they had gone into strange lands, across wide seas, had climbed mountains where no human foot had ever trod. And he couldn't think why they had done these things. What impulse had driven them from their own kind to perish alone, or among strangers.

And to-day how could a man think whole-heartedly of mechanism, even though it was his proper and satisfactory job, when by walking a mile or two and crawling down a hole, he could get in touch with lost civilisations and the thought-mechanism of complex human beings?

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.