Quotes About Discovery

Some hours ago we had discovered a giant. Now we had discovered a man. The giant was the man, but being a man he could no longer be a giant. The man had undermined the giant.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

Enter these enchanted woods, You who dare.

Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.

A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

What I like more than anything is to visit other islands...

In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower? No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap.

IT IS SAID with truth that every building is constructed stone by stone, and the same may be said of knowledge, extracted and compiled by many learned men, each of whom builds upon the works of those who preceded him. What one of them does not know is known to another, and little remains truly unknown if one seeks far enough.

Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay at home and tend his garden in content, for this wide world has no greater wonder.

He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been.

Searching is not finding.

Man's curiosity drives him to seek the answer to every question. But it's the unanswered questions that are the most exciting.

Sail far. Sail fast.

They had ridden past the end of the world; somehow that changed everything.

She had to have gone elsewhere... but elsewhere is a big place.

we have asked, Where did Aerea take Balerion? We should have been asking, Where did Balerion take Aerea?

You will never find the eye with your fingers, Bran. You must search with your heart.

No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap.

He must have found that bastard under a cabbage leaf, then,