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Quotes About Discovery

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
~ David McCullough
As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked.
~ Barbara W. Winder
You don't always need to know your destination when you set out on a journey.
~ Carole Wilkinson, Dragon Moon
Now I know what the atom looks like.
~ Ernest Rutherford
Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.
~ Mark Nepo
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
~ George Eliot
I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
~ Jack Kerouac
Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
~ Ajahn Chah
Leave no stone unturned.
~ Euripides
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
~ Diogenes of Sinope
There is only one path, though there are many ways to experience it.
~ David Wilcock
Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!
~ Rumi
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
~ Lin Yutang
I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.
~ Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
~ Francoise Sagan
We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.
~ Plato
Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.
~ Rumi
Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.
~ Bernard Haisch
The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia
~ Leonardo Sciascia
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.
~ C. S. Lewis
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Socrates
All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.
~ Marshall McLuhan