Quotes About Discovery

As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration.

Reading accounts is dull; economic detective work is the easy way to get to the same conclusion.

curious person, however, enjoys being surprised and hungers for the unexpected.

wanted to build a toaster from scratch. He started by taking apart a

If we want to make the world add up, we need to ask questions -- open-minded, genuine questions. And once we start asking them, we may find it is delightfully difficult to stop.

Ormerod's discovery strongly implies that effective planning is rare in the modern economy.

He had found his monsters, and now was the time to leave them behind.

Voyaging great distances – through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains – is all about finding ourselves.

Robert Burton was right: maps are a certain cure for melancholy.

Poetically if not geographically, the Kuria Murias belong to the same harmonious archipelago as Serendip, the Celebes, Tahiti and Taprobane, Andaman and Nicobar, the Isle of Grain and the Isle of Dogs. I had fallen in love with the name years before, in the atlas.

Peace never bragged. If you didn't look for it, it wasn't there.

How do you generalize? War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead. The truths are contradictory.

Money was never a problem, passports were never required. There were always new places to dance.

War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.

We find truth inside, or not at all.

Temos demasiado pouca diversão na maioria da aprendizagem formal e as pessoas estão ansiosas por isso. Se não conseguimos inspirar curiosidade é provável que estejamos no caminho errado.

It's a new world, right enough, a world for the taking, and we're the ones who know how to live in it without having to pretend it's a district of England or France or Spain.

What made him shift each boot from one step to the next one down, and then the other boot to the one below that, was the thought of being able to read books. He had of course seen the things many times, and had seen people peer into pages and then raise their heads knowing things they hadn't known before.

running parallel to the medieval

this Panama.

It was like watching a community you thought you knew reveal itself as something else.

I tell you Charlie, I was there waiting in that field. waiting for Ede and Tom to find me. You don't think two people come together for nothing, do you? They were together because I was waiting to be found... Then she looked straight into my face and said to me: You know it, too, Charlie. All that time you waited for me to find you. What if I hadn't? What if I'd said: I won't? She turned, and clinging to my arm, she surveyed the fields of snow the stretched away to the confining wall.

In the wilderness, I found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD... And I have made my sacrifice accordingly.

When Mrs Ross asked him what he was thinking of, he shrugged. But he was thinking of the time he'd climbed the steeple of a church when he was ten-and had seen, for the very first time, the world spread out around him like a gift.