Quotes About Discovery

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

Love is meant to be an adventure!!

Nothing substitutes for what can be found when we embrace the world of books.

The order we seek begins with a thorough scouring of the inside of life.

What is the biggest obstacle to creativity? Attachment to outcome. As soon as you become attached to a specific outcome, you feel compelled to control and manipulate what you're doing and in the process you shut yourself off to other possibilities. Creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about experimenting and discovering.

[T]he drama that is associated usually with the young as they fully begin to enter life—with adolescents, with young men... can also startle and lay siege to the aged.... Maybe the most potent discoveries are reserved for last.

You'll meet more angels on a winding path than on a straight one.

Always remember lost, so that you don't take for granted found.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Childhood is the sleep of reason...

Researchers have discovered that chocolate produced some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are.

Daddy, why doesn't this magnet pick up this floppy disk?

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

Sometimes you need to spend time in an empty desert to discover how full your soul is.

...and only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out just how far one can go.

Some people talk about finding God — as if He could get lost.

When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.

Curiosity had twins — one was Invention and the other was Stick Yer Nose Into Things.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

If yu ever find happiness bi hunting for it, yu will find it, az the old woman did the spektakles she had lost, safe on her own noze all the time.

So here was my predicament: I knew that within myself was a Golconda of memories of other lives, yet I was unable to do more than flit like a madman through those memories. I had my Golconda but could not mine it.