Quotes About Discovery

But she actually was glad to have identified the one thing about Jasper she'd change, because it was similar to realizing what you'd forgotten to take on a trip, and if it was only perfume, as opposed to your driver's license, you were relieved.

Miss Koala, the Eastern Star, and the Simón Bolívar.

Dicey awoke the next morning with the sense that she was ready to solve problems, the way you often do, as if the time of sleep were a long journey to a distant country where alterations in geographical formations, in light, in ways of living, in language even, enable you to see your own world more clearly.

There had been nothing between them, and yet they had come together, exchanging their nakedness repeatedly.... She had never seen him, he had never seen her, they had met in the dark and had fought in the dark, not knowing whom they met or whom they fought. And now she saw, and turned silent in seeing. For she had been wrong. She had said he was something he was not; she had felt familiar with him. Whereas he was apart all the while, living as she never lived, feeling as she never felt.

There is a sixth sense . . . that is the sense of wonder.

Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one's own life.

Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha

Art has two great functions. First, it provides an emotional experience. And then, if we have the courage of our own feelings, it becomes a mine of practical truth. We have had the feelings ad nauseam. But we've never dared dig the actual truth out of them, the truth that concerns us, whether it concerns our grandchildren or not.

And she had discovered him, discovered in him a rare potentiality, discovered his loneliness.

Had you noticed them before? he asked. No, never before, she replied. And now you will always see them, he said.

All the things that are lovely—   The things you never knew— I wanted to gather them one by one   And bring them to you.

It is very much easier to shatter prison-bars than to open undiscovered doors to life.

I want to find you, where you don't know your own existence, the you that your common self denies utterly.

I have travelled, and looked at the world, and loved it. Now I don't want to look at the world anymore, there seems nothing there. In not-looking, and in not-seeing comes a new strength and undeniable new gods share their life with us, when we cease to see.

My known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest.

The real joy of a book lies in reading it over and over again, and always finding it different, coming upon another meaning, another level of meaning.

Even the real scientist works in the sense of wonder. The pity is, when he comes out of his laboratory he puts aside his wonder along with his apparatus, and tries to make it all perfectly didactic.

The true liberty will only begin when Americans discover IT, and proceed possibly to fulfill IT. IT being the deepest whole self of man, the self in its wholeness, not idealistic halfness.

Oh yeah, and Spader was hanging out with a penguin -Bobby Pendragon

Dimmi, dimmi se mai fu fatta cosa alcuna

If there are fish that would swim or birds that would fly only after investigating the entire ocean or sky, they would find neither path nor place.

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Let's try, said Evelyn. Let's do it for the mermicorns.