Quotes About Discovery

I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars, to sail to an uncharted land, to open up a new heaven where our spirits can soar.

Westward, Ho!

If you can teach me a new word, I'll walk all the way to China to get it.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

But it does move.

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.

I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It's endlessly varying as we progress through the experience of time. These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.

The interests of childhood and youth are the interests of mankind.

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

Adventure may sometimes hurt, but monotony will kill you.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves — in finding themselves.

That breeze in your soul is adventure calling.

The search for, and quite often assumed discovery of some paternal-like God or a testy senior after the fashion of Jehovah, frequently has its origins in an adolescent rejection of the father.

To learn is to broaden, to experience more, to snatch new aspects of life for yourself. To refuse to learn or to be relieved at not having to learn is to commit a form of suicide; in the long run, a more meaningful type of suicide than the mere ending of physical life. Knowledge is not only power; it is happiness, and being taught is the intellectual analog of being loved.

Is like finding a diamond asteroid in the rings of Saturn

Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

Life is a zigzag journey, they say, not much straight and easy on the way, but the wrinkles in the map, explorers know, smooth out like magic at the end of where we go.

Mi i ne znamo kolike snage i kakve sve mogu?nosti krije u sebi svako živo stvorenje. I ne slutimo šta sve umemo. Budemo i pro?emo, a ne saznamo šta smo sve mogli biti i u?initi.

To poslepodne bilo je za mene doživljaj. Video sam prvu pravu biblioteku u svom životu i bilo mi je jasno da vidim svoju sudbinu.

Do what brings you joy, and your purpose will unfold.

That's science fiction shit, It's only fiction until science catches up.

Let me tell you the meaning of the sacred and alluring garden that blooms in the heart of the desert and produces the food of life. The garden for which you are currently heading is nowhere and everywhere except in the camps. It is another name for the only place where you belong, Michaels, where you do not feel homeless. It is off every map, no road leads to it that is merely a road, and only you know the way.