Quotes About Discovery

Of course, though, there can be treasures revealed in a conversation, whether we realize it or not at the time.

She'd also noted that the volume was stamped Property of the Longboat Hotel, Scarborough and the bookmark was a folded copy of a bill for a week's stay directed to the account of Mr. and Mrs. A.H. Dalziel.

De ontdekking van de toekomst is de ontdekking van het verleden.

Zu wie vielen Horizonten ich auch aufgebrochen bin, die Belohnung lag jeweils im Streben selbst.

weiß ich, dass es so viele Lebenswege gibt wie Menschen auf dieser Erde. Den eigenen Weg zu finden ist die Kunst schlechthin, denn nur auf unserem Weg sind wir stark.

Denn Erkenntnis – auch über uns selbst – lässt sich nicht im Gänsemarsch gewinnen. Und eine Gesellschaft, die das Suchen oder Forschen nicht zulässt, ist dem Untergang geweiht.

Ich war nie ein Wilder: zwar unangepasst, ein Sucher im Sinne von Geisteshaltung, Ideal, Ästhetik und Neugier. Und ich gehe weiterhin in die Wildnis: um einer gezähmten Welt zu entkommen, der wahren Menschennatur auf der Spur.

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

Eléa-enfants regardait le garçon, et le garçon la regardait. ils étaient heureux et beaux. Ils se reconnaissaient comme s'ils avaient marché toujours à la rencontre l'un de l'autre, sans hâte et sans impatience, avec la certitude de se rencontrer. Le moment de la rencontre était venu, ils étaient l'un avec l'autre et ils se regardaient. Ils se découvraient, ils étaient tranquilles et émerveillés.

I imagine he knows magic, if he is reading books. The book itself doesn't matter. It's that he found another world in it.

No matter how far you have run, no matter how long you have been lost, it is never too late to be found.

Telling the truth is an important part of discovering who you are

couldn't go home, she couldn't go to a friend. Getting cash and checking into a hotel would take care of the immediate problem, but not the long-term one. Ultimately, she needed to get out of town, to get as far out of Atlanta as she possibly could at the moment. Her brow furrowed. But where could she possibly— Suddenly a phrase emblazoned on a nearby awning snagged her attention. Are you ready for the time of your

Porque Kafka descubre un nuevo modo de leer: la literatura le da forma a la experiencia vivida, la constituye como tal y la anticipa.

Por fin me ha sucedido algo. Por fin me ha sucedido algo, ¿no es sensacional?

Inveniet viam aut faciet.

Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.

What is this stuff, do you know?" he asked. "No, I don't," said Hazel. "I've never seen it before." "There's a lot we don't know," said Blackberry. "About this place, I mean. The plants are new, the smells are new. We're going to need some new ideas ourselves." "Well, you're the fellow for ideas," said Hazel. "I never know anything until you tell me.

Plot as such is not a major ingredient in my novels... it's often better to sail on the unconscious sea.

It was not long before Fiver found what they were looking for.

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand?

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.