Quotes About Discovery

You're wrong about me, because we can be friends if you let me try, now that you know how worthless I am. And you're wrong about Barcelona, too, because you may think you've seen everything, but I can guarantee that's not true. If you'll allow me, I can prove it to you.

Te sorprendería cómo uno siempre busca en el presente o en el futuro las respuestas que están en el pasado.

To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them.

Truth cannot be found, son. It finds you.

I turned to discover the faint smile of the bookseller's niece. Her voice was pure crystal, transparent and so fragile I feared that her words would break if I interrupted them.

What the flower vendor interpreted as 'pretty nasty' was only the intensity that comes to those who, better late than never, have found a purpose in life and are pursuing it to make up for lost time.

Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.

I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever.

I hope you find the path that I missed.

The more you hide the truth, the quicker it finds you - Max, The Prince of Midst

few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.

Sabe, Daniel? A veces pienso que Darwin se equivocó y que en realidad el hombre desciende del cerdo, porque en ocho de cada diez homínidos hay un chorizo esperando a ser descubierto —argumentaba

Alicia, welcome back to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.

Morat ?e pro?i još mnogo godina prije nego što Max zaboravi ljeto kad je otkrio, gotovo sasma slu?ajno, magiju.

Mi balenò in mente il pensiero che dietro ogni copertina si celasse un universo da esplorare e che, fuori di lì, la gente sprecasse il tempo ascoltando partite di calcio e sceneggiati alla radio, paga della propria mediocrità.

Madurar no es más que el proceso de descubrir que todo aquello que creías cuando eras joven es falso y que, a su vez, todo cuanto rechazabas creer en tu juventud resulta ser cierto.

El anciano hizo una mueca burlona. La verdad no se encuentra, hijo. Ella lo encuentro a uno.

We must now confont out destiny. Each to his own. We're all adults now aren't we? Do you know what maturity means Ben? Let your father explain. Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.

Sono cresciuto in mezzo ai libri, facendomi amici invisibili tra le pagine polverose di cui ho ancora l'odore sulle mani.

Faith is found when one isn't looking for it.

Cuanto más se le intenta ocultar algo a un niño, más empeño pone este en encontrarlo, ya sea un dulce o una postal de coristas descocadas dándoles vuelo a sus encantos.

la fe se encuentra cuando no se busca y llegará el día en que sea su corazón, no su mente, el que anhele la purificación del alma.

Doros?o?? nie jest niczym wi?cej ni? tylko odkrywaniem, ?e wszystko, w co wierzy?e?, kiedy by?e? m?ody, to fa?sz, a z kolei wszystko to, co w m?odo?ci odrzuca?e?, teraz okazuje si? prawd?.

And how do you see me?" "Like a mystery." "That's the strangest compliment anyone has ever paid me." "It's not a compliment. It's a threat." "What do you mean?" "Mysteries must be solved, one must find out what they hide." "You might be disappointed when you see what's inside." "I might be surprised. And you, too.