Quotes About Discovery

he faced south and the strange, barbaric lands that lay there.

In all your travels around Alagaësia, with Angela and without, you've never found anything that might explain this mystery? Or even just something that might be of use against Galbatorix." I found you, didn't I? "That's not funny," growled Eragon.

He bent and plucked a tooth, a molar, from the dirt.

May your path always lead to knowledge, Prisoner. Knowledge to freedom.

another finger sign I'd never seen before

Ten-year-old Bud is a motherless boy on the run, and his momma never told him who his father was. But she left a clue: posters of Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!! Bud's got an idea that those posters will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road and find this mystery man, nothing can stop him—not hunger, not cops, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.

On occasion, those attending Socrates Café have met the love of their lives.

Don't simply knock and wait for the door to be opened. Go look for the keys. Some fit the lock better than others.

If there really are such creatures in here, it would be the discovery of a lifetime.' 'If there really are such creatures in here,' Sally countered, 'your lifetime might be very short.

I don't think I'm going to be bored here

My walk through the cemetery was an acquaintance with local history.

He opened all the drawers in his desk. All were empty, except that a box of staples lay in one. He pocketed the staples. "I already took the polygraph.

When emotional intelligence was first discovered, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with the highest levels of intelligence (IQ) outperform those with average IQs just 20 percent of the time, while people with average IQs outperform those with high IQs 70 percent of the time. This anomaly threw a massive wrench into what many people had always assumed was the source of success—IQ. Scientists

Most people would not open a door unless they knew what lay beyond, and even if they opened the door by mistake, they would find an uninteresting room beyond.

Mööda koridori tõtates püüdis Rothen Vinara kutse põhjusele mitte mõelda. Peagi saab ta selle niigi teada.

Solo aquellos que se arriesgan a ir demasiado lejos sabrán lo lejos que pueden llegar.

What is it that the child has to teach? The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness. The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not. And the child is right.

In recent years, astronomers have discovered that not all stars shine. There are some stars of such tremendous density, instead of radiating outwards they only draw light in. Therefore, they have named these stars, "Black Holes." Fortunately, the universe has enough Black Holes already. If you have light, shine forth.

the objective of all man's toil in this world: To reach beyond his own mind.

True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.

We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either because he knew the work, or because he had been seeking it for a long time, or finally because he had never heard it mentioned and was highly excited and titillated. In short, for him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land.

It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else's house.

I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it.