Quotes About Discovery

I want to be me, and yet I'm not sure who I am.

For a brief second I remember everything about who and what I used to be. But most of all, I remember Harlin. And I wonder how he'll find me if I'm someone else.

My eyes are trained on the trees, but my heart begins to race. "Maybe it's time you try," I say. I'm not in denial; I've always known Realm was hiding something. But now, here, I'm scared of what he has to say.

He opened up a different part of my soul.

It is in adolescence that most of us grasp that life--our own life--is a problem to be solved, that a set of personal unknowns must now be factored together with the frightening variables of experience. The future suddenly appears--it is the space upon which the answers will be inscribed.

Sometimes I think that the long-term work of reading is to discover one by one, the books that hold the scattered elements of our nature, after which the true consummation can begin. We undertake the gradual focused exploration, nuance by nuance, of their meanings, their implications; we follow out the strands that mysteriously connect the words of another with the unformulated stuff of the self.

The bad news: There is no key to the universe. The good news: It was never locked.

The point is, of course, that we live in total uncertainty already. This is nothing new. Our tensions are therefore simply our attempt to hold onto something and to create some certainty for ourselves. Yet, in creating something certain, we deny ourselves access to our great inner treasure. We do not see that we are only holding onto rabbit pellets.

Knowledge is inherent in man; no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting anywhere waiting for him? It was in his own mind; the time came and he found it out. All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind. The external world is simply the suggestion, the occasion, which sets you to study your own mind.

No knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. What we say a man "knows", should, in strict psychological language, be what he "discovers" or "unveils"; what a man "learns" is really what he "discovers", by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

and has found that the world, and the gods, and heaven are ... within his own Self.

You have to find the place where you abandon everything of yourself. Then you can let something else happen.

I'm looking for a feel and I have to find what that feel is before I can move on from there. I'm not necessarily catching stuff in such a simple way - I don't need to. So, I'm going for something else.

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.

We found what we could at that time - the truth. If somebody else can find something else which we didn't find, that, of course, is a duty on their part, as is the truth. It will be the truth.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

There had to be something else out there that would help me change. I wanted to live.

The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.

All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry.

It's really good to be forced to get away and try something else, find something that's exciting.

You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's about something else, and then by the time you're done, you can look back and say, 'Oh, this is what it's about.'

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.

I don't know how anyone can see the Hubble 'Deep Field' image and not feel like something else is going about its business out there.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.