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Quotes About Discovery

Now we have travelled a hundred million steps from the Datum, we are finding life systems entirely unlike our own - and yet we still find war. Must it always be so?
~ Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars
in all the vastness of the world, the deepest adventure is not of war or mortal danger, but of heart, of soul, of the infinite discovery of a beloved other.
~ A.S. Peterson, Fiddler's Green
If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than th
~ Ernest Rutherford
Because it's all about the journey...
~ Selena Fulton
The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.
~ George Eliot
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
~ Marcel Proust
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
~ John Muir
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
~ Wernher von Braun
A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.
~ Paulo Coelho
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
~ Rumi
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
~ Henry David Thoreau
He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
~ Jack Kerouac
When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there.
~ Farid al-Din Attar
I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with
~ Plato
If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.
~ Laozi
We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder
~ Pope Gregory I
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
~ Jack Kerouac
A path is made by walking on it.
~ Zhuangzi
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
~ John Muir
Only in the irrational and unknown direction can we come to wisdom again
~ Jack Parsons
I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.
~ Olivia Newton-John
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
~ Ansel Adams