Quotes About Discovery

My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two rooms. I could walk any aisle and smell wisdom.

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

Everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowing.

The questions are always more important than the answers.

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.

The further in you go, the bigger it gets.

The farther you go, the less you know.

Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?

Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.

Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.

That's what I've decided I am. A seeker of wisdom and truth.

Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment

Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression.

Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the underlying truth that they all transmit.

What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.

While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.