Quotes About Discovery

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open.

Surprise is the beginning of wisdom.

Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.

What a man 'learns' is really what he 'discovers,' by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration. There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to

What a mean 'learns' is really what he 'discovers,' by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

What I learnt came to me . . . at second and at third hand, in chunks and puzzles, degrees and flashes.

In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves -- so how can we know anyone else?

What you don't know would make a great book.

quoted Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, once accused of being an "adventurer." His response was, "An adventure is what happens when exploration goes wrong.

Thanks to generations of curious, daring, intrepid explorers of the past, we may know enough, soon enough, to chart safe passage for ourselves far into the future.

I didn't know I was looking for anything until I saw you.

I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.

I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.

I can still feel that leap of enthusiasm, and real joy, at the prospect of finally getting out to the beach, and running around. But probably the most important thing, to me, aside from just the freedom of it and the power of it, was the kind of creatures that you could see along the beach, that you can't find anywhere else." - Sylvia Earle

But a light now waxed within him at the knowledge that such wonders as he had been shown could exist.

It's not enough just to learn what there ISN'T; we need to know what there IS.

Yet if they kept on, without knowing, then someday they might discover something totally new and significant just from having followed a different path, something Elana's people had missed. Thousands of years from now, the natives of this world might do the same! If that was how it worked, then it was worth whatever sacrifice anybody had to make.

I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a strong compulsion to learn by doing is one of the most reliable signs of genius.