Quotes About Discovery

Skepticism is fine, but don't pass by a once in a lifetime opportunity to uncover a treasure because of it.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

No se puede comprender el zen a través de los libros y conferencias. Se trata de descubrir en nosotros el origen de la vida manifestada. No podemos nutrirnos de la imagen de la manzana, ni podemos saber sin tocarla si el agua está caliente o fría.

People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

Good or bad, it's the little surprises that keep life interesting.

I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that this is the most important thing on earth, and the most lasting.

But in all that suffering, the most painful suffering of all was the consciousness that it was banal, had all been discovered a long time ago, and was known to all the generations past, all just a repeated series, stamped out by our genes, That the universe was filled to its edges groans as alike as two notes, that those particular groans formed one great groan similar to the shrill parliament of the sparrows and that groan became an interstellar roar, the inaudible groan of the aging cosmos.

Where roads are made I lose my way. In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track. The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons. And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.

Aku lari bagai musang lari dalam bayang-bayang rimba, gila dengan wanginya sendiri. Malamnya malam pertengahan Mei dan anginnya angin selatan. Aku kehilangan jala dan aku pun mengelana. Aku mencari apa yang tak bisa kudapat, aku mendapat apa yang tak kucari.

We lose ourselves in books. We find ourselves there too.

I've never been skydiving, but I have zoomed-in on Google Earth really fast.

Everyone is a reader.... Some just haven't found their book yet.

Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.

Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.

Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible.

Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it.

Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.

A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation

Sometimes, I just want to run away from it all - Fruits Basket

I want to go to the mountains, I want to go to the sea, I want to go to a place where no one knows me, I want to be lost among the people who speak a language I don't understand at all.

All this time she hadn't known that "blue" was actually seven distinct shades, each with its own names- azure, Prussian, cobalt, cerulean, sapphire, indigo, lapis. She pressed the waxy pencils on the paper, amazed by the emerging hues: the ornaments curving on the Armenian vase were lapis; the purplish contours of the Jerusalem mountains were shrouded by indigo evening clouds.

Jeg fylte tolv før en utrolig oppriktig sanglærer sa at han heller ville lytte til et kor av agapadder enn meg, og at jeg burde finne på noe annet.

But as he'd learned through the years, sometimes the best things were found when you weren't looking for them.