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Quotes About Discovery

The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see life in terms of power.
~ E. M. Forster
I've never wanted to meet anyone I've been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.
~ Elaine Dundy
With a book in your hand...you can go anywhere you want
~ F.E. Higgins
No." Mosca bit her lip and shook her head firmly. Books no longer seemed quite enough. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.
~ Frances Hardinge
True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.
~ Frances Hardinge
On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.
~ Francois Arago
Trying different things is very important to me. I see people and want to wear their clothes and drive in their cars for awhile. Thats probably one reason I became an actor.
~ Fred Ward
Some roads were easier to leave than others. Many walked to seek the future, but found only the past. Others sought the past, to make it new once more, and discovered that the past was nothing like the one they'd imagined. One could walk in search of friends, and find naught but strangers. One could yearn for company but find little but cruel solitude.
~ Steven Erikson
Some roads were easier to leave than others. Many walked to seek the future, but found only the past. Others sought the past, to make it new once more, and discovered that the past was nothing like the one they'd imagined.
~ Steven Erikson
Aye, Master. Only, how do we know where that dhenrabi might take us?" "Oh, we know that, most certainly. Why, the dhenrabi breeding beds, of course." "Oh.
~ Steven Erikson
Every artist was haunted by lies. Every artist fought to find truths. Every artist failed. Some turned back, embracing those comforting lies. Others took their own lives in despair. Still others drank themselves into the barrow, or poisoned everyone who drew near enough to touch, to wound. Some simply gave up, and wasted away in obscurity. A few discovered their own mediocrity, and this was the cruellest discovery of all. None found their way to the truths.
~ Steven Erikson
We don't even know where we are. What realm is this? What world lies beyond this forest? Cousin, we have nowhere else to go.' 'Nowhere, and anywhere. In the circumstances, Nimander, the former leads to the latter, like reaching a door everyone believes barred, locked tight, and lo, it opens wide at the touch. Nowhere and anywhere are states of mind.
~ Steven Erikson
Compassion is never enough. Nor is the hunger for vengeance. But, for now, for what awaits us, perhaps they will do. We are the Bonehunters, and sail to another name. Beyond Aren, beyond Raraku and beyond Y'Ghatan, we now cross the world to find the first name that will be truly our own. Shared by none other. We sail to give answer.
~ Steven Erikson
Friend, I have remembered something.
~ Steven Erikson
It plagues the young, this need to find reasons for things.
~ Steven Erikson
How many times, dear traveller, will you walk the same path?
~ Steven Erikson
Sighing, Kruppe reached into the small purse strapped to his belt, probed within the leather pouch, then, brows lifted in sudden dismay: 'Dearest Meese, yet another discovery…
~ Steven Erikson
that is the journey of your life, godling, to learn the language of your soul, to learn it to learn it even as you live it.
~ Steven Erikson
The truth may hide at your feet. The truth may lie coiled in high grasses. But it still has claws, it still has fangs. Be careful, Captain, where you step.
~ Steven Erikson
Forest soon replaced the exposed bedrock, slowly shifting from coniferous to deciduous, the hills giving way to flatter ground. The trees then thinned, and suddenly, beyond a line of tangled deadfall, plains stretched before them, and the rain was gone. Onrack raised a hand. 'We shall halt here.
~ Steven Erikson
Here be the mountains vanishing in the mists, never to return. Here be the rivers sinking into the sands, and these are the sands that never rest. And the sky that looks down and sees nothing. Here, aye, is the world behind me, for I was never much of a map-maker, never much the surveyor of deeds.
~ Steven Erikson
Some gifts are evil. Others are not, but what they are remains to be discovered. Rest
~ Steven Erikson
One day,' he said, 'we shall walk the Roads to the Abyss. And so witness all the wonders of the universe.
~ Steven Erikson
Its the actions one produces that will lead them toward the unknown.
~ Steven Farmer