Quotes About Discovery

Experifaith is distinctly different from storyfaith. It does not provide answers to life's big questions. Rather, it proposes a path of discovery through practice, where a person can come to his or her own conclusions. As such, it has more in common with the modern scientific method than storyfaith does, and, when practiced properly, experifaith is mostly verifiable within a community of practitioners.

It seemed as if I could see things in her that others couldn't see, qualities which not even she was aware of. It was as I I could already see in her the woman she would later become.

Les vérités qu'on aime le moins à apprendre sont celles que l'on a le plus d'intérêt à savoir.

Et si nous étions tous à la poursuite de quelque chose que nous possédons déjà?

Jedino što je izvesno: iz jednog ovakvog putovanja ne izlazi se netaknut. Ne izlazi se bolji. Ne izlazi se ja?i.

Quien encuentra hace rato que está buscando, aunque no lo sepa.»

El vuelo de un pájaro es efímero. Solo va de una rama a otra, pero desde esa otra rama, descubre un mundo nuevo».

The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.

Eons of loneliness, and then one day your ellipsis peaks toward that of another planet and there is a gasp of nearness. Wouldn't you try to make the most of it? Wouldn't you, too, combust and flare and explode if you had to?

Libraries don't keep secrets; they reveal them.

Watching a movie for the first time is a flirt. Rewatching it, is a date.

You never truly know who you are until you get really, deeply hurt.

But all things lost can be found again, the trees whispered.

Saber a qué le tememos, es sabes quiénes somos.

El Von Humboldt barriobajero explorador, sabio y buscador de nuevas especies, ha creído encontrar un antro del tamaño de su melancolía.

There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide the best overall setting to make discoveries about the world around us. We don't think this is merely coincidental. It cries out for another explanation, an explanation that... points to purpose and intelligent design in the cosmos.

Sometimes I wish I had never met you, because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there.

Everybody could attain this if he had the key. The key consists simply in becoming aware of one's "form of the Self or of one's skin, even though one may be asleep, in discovering the narrow crack through which consciousness slips between waking and deep sleep.

Robert Darvel, now certain that he had left the planet of his birth and that what he had taken to be a Canadian forest was instead a part of Mars, walked with great strides, as much to revive his sluggish limbs as to reach, as quickly as possible, some Martian settlement, the existence of which he was impatient to discover.

Nosotros esperaremos regularmente a que se haya borrado la última huella para empezar a buscarla.

Ese soy yo, que al caso cruzo el mundo, sin pensar de donde vengo, ni adonde mis pasos me llevarán

A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love.

Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community - not the community coming to the concert - they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that this music was so amazing!'

Beauty is worth looking for.