Quotes About Discovery

When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.

The history of American women is all about leaving home—crossing

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.

Along the way, we discover that we are alone. We no longer have to ask permission because we are the providers of our own safety….There is grieving to be done because an old self is dying. By taking in our suppressed and even our unwanted parts, we prepare at the gut level for the reintegration of an identity that is ours and ours alone – not some artificial form put together to please the culture or our mates.

I learned that beauty exists where you least expect to find it.

He seemed to have a story no one had bothered to discover

Beauty exists where you least expect to find it.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

My dear Kepler , what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?

See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

The first step ... shall be to lose the way.

Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you discover grace.

We cannot learn to fly by following the tracks left by birds in the sand. We must find our own wings and soar.

For you, only life is of value, you have a lingering attachment to it, it continues to be interesting because there are still things to discover and amaze you. It is only life that can excite you. That is just how it is with you, isn't it?

This,' whispered the Doctor to Romana, 'is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

We are all afforded our physical existence so we can learn about ourselves.

The science of life is changing hearts and minds.

it's not the solution, it's the path to the solution that is fascinating

Did you find yourself?" "What?" said my sister. "Did you find yourself?" "She found me," I said.