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Quotes About Discovery

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.
~ Ivar Giaever
You know what the truth is? You don't find Bill Murray. Bill Murray finds you.
~ Theodore Melfi
Sometimes we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for.
~ Meg Cabot
I hate vacations. I hate them. I have no fun on them. I get nothing done. People sit and relax, but I don't want to relax. I want to see something.
~ Paul Theroux
Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.
~ Timbaland
We often have to lose what we thought we wanted to find what God wants for us
~ Jon Gordon
Don't be dependent on anyone else. I want to go everywhere, look at, and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there is in life.
~ Shel Silverstein
Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.
~ Catherine Drinker Bowen
I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.
~ Gayle Forman
I'm meeting a lot of musicians and people in the music business, and am constantly trying to figure out what I want to do with music. We'll see. I want to do everything.
~ Tyler Posey
It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want.
~ Isabel Paterson
Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do.
~ Sugata Mitra
Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time?
~ Hilton Als
Gradual school is where you go to school and you gradually find out you don't want to go to school anymore.
~ Robin Williams
When everything changes we learn who we really are. What's really important. What we want most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.
~ Megan Hart
I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.
~ Sean Connery
The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.
~ Elias Canetti
The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't remember what made me want to be an actor. In fact, I'm always curious.
~ Robert De Niro
Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.
~ Martina Hingis
Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there are things beautiful in it, things wondrous and alluring, and by virtue of your trade you want to understand them.
~ Mitchell Feigenbaum
No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
In the end, the truth finds a way to surface even if you don't want it to.
~ Jennifer Lopez