Quotes About Discovery

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

Beyond the Alps lies Italy.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

Life is a jig saw puzzle with most of the pieces missing.

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tide and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

The history of medicine is a story of amazing foolishness and amazing intelligence.

The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find.

The good composer is slowly discovered, the bad composer is slowly found out.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know; the second, is to find out who will tell you.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring, but very interesting.

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what he thinks should be there, not quite pulling it off, covering it over with white paint, and trying again, each time finding out what his painting isn't, until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is, you're off and running.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.

All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

One day, with life and heart, is more than time enough to find a world.

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

Acorns were good till bread was found.

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: yourself.

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.