Quotes About Discovery

writing, which is solitary, is fine company for organizing, which is communal. It just took me a while to discover that both can happen wherever you are.

I always thought of my road life as temporary, assuming that one day I would grow up and settle down. Now I realized that for me, the road was permanent, and settling down was temporary. Traveling had created my nonroad life, not the other way around.

Clearly, Columbus never "discovered" America, in either sense of that word. The people who knew it were already here.

read Plato or Shakespeare or Dante as if we found their books in the street and had no idea who they were. I

every trip, my pockets full of scribbled notes about new events. Altogether I might never have had the will or the way to do any of the things that matter most to me, had it not been for just being Out There. Taking to the road—by which I mean letting the road take you—changed who I thought I was. The road is messy

there is no better moment in life than finding the right word.

That's why, if I had to name the most important discovery of my life, it would be the portable community of talking circles; groups that gather with all five senses, and allow consciousness to change.

I became a person whose friends and hopes were as spread out as my life. It just felt natural that the one common element in that life was the road.

laughter is a mark of wanderers

When new people guide us, we see a new country.

We learn most where we know the least. For

if I had to name the most important discovery of my life, it would be the portable community of talking circles; groups that gather with all five senses, and allow consciousness to change.

I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.

The solution to the mystery is always inferior to the mystery itself.

Go far to go far.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

M? întorc în mine însumi ?i g?sesc o lume!

I go back into myself and find a whole world!

Wer Perlen will, der muß ins Meer sich stürzen.

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

So here we are once more in the wilds, and once more we've come upon some out of the way corner. But what a wilderness, and what an out of the way corner!

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

The joys of life sometime come in hidden shapes, unexpected. Great or small, short or tall, be sure to have them all collected.