Quotes About Discovery

After half a day in a place—especially a foreign country—you've learned more than from all the books and articles you've read.

Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one

Relying on the maxim that Principle is not bound by Precedent we should not limit our expectations of the future; and if our speculations lead us to the conclusion that we have reached a point where we are not only able, but also required, by the law of our own being, to take a more active part in our personal evolution than heretofore, this discovery will afford us a new outlook upon life and widen our horizon with fresh interests and brightening hopes.

The house, though new to us when we purchased it in the spring, was almost three hundred years old, an uninhabited wreck we had chanced upon,

He felt his jaw again, wiggling it back and forth, then nodding. "And now you'll be tellin' me they started

I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found.

A stone, a leaf, an unfound door.

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth--it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that.

Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about.

Pearls rarely turn up in oysters served to you on a plate; you have to dive for them.

Otherwise he was glad we had missed our landing, for he still had three books to read.

The Kon-Tiki expedition opened my eyes to what the ocean really is. It is a conveyor and not an isolator.

The task of science is investigation pure and simple," he said quietly. "Not to try to prove this or that." He

It was a great moment on board when two large boobies were spotted above the horizon to westward

The Kon-Tiki expedition opened my eyes to what the ocean really is. It is a conveyor and not an isolator. The ocean has been man's highway from the days he built the first buoyant ships, long before he tamed the horse, invented wheels, and cut roads through the virgin jungles.

California, here I come.

He discovered in his heart the first faint whispering of pure Christianity, and in some way he continued to keep his virtue intact by keeping his vices active.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

Once you have swung a pickax that will reveal the curve of a street four thousand years covered over which was once an active, much-traveled highway, you are never quite the same again.

Three cheers have invented the wheel.

It was strange how she found out, One moment she didn't know; the next minute she did. One moment her mind was as blank as the desert; the next minute the snake of suspicion had slithered into her thoughts and raised its poisonous head.

The human mind has the potential for infinite development. If you can discover, even in a small way, that true satisfaction comes from your mind, you will realize that you can extend this experience without limit and that it is possible to discover everlasting satisfaction.

After my pregnancy, I discovered I have an allergy to yeast. Problem is, all the food I love has yeast in it. So I have to relearn how to cook.