Quotes About Discovery

but often it is best to plead ignorance. That way you are more likely to learn secrets that might otherwise have been denied you.

Nothing in the world is hidden forever.

And then he said — not bitterly — that he would die as he had lived, forgotten and unknown. He maintained that resolution to the last. There is no hope now of making any discoveries concerning him. His story is a blank.

All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya.

We are like a man who goes round a castle seeking in vain for an entrance, and sometimes sketching the facades. If we can ferret out the ultimate nature of our own minds we shall perhaps have the key to the external world. 

He studied the stars, and guided his caravans across mountains and deserts by tracing his route in the sky.

Leonardo called "the noblest pleasure, the joy of understanding.

To the Romans, the Greeks and the Jews Sumeria was unknown.

La educacion es el progresivo descubrimiento de nuestra propia ignorancia.

Every topic begins as philosophy, turns to science and ends as art.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.

What a strange instrument a tuba is. I wonder how many different shapes they twisted that metal into until they realized that a tuba's shape was the exact one they needed to make that exact sound.

Tea chests full of the rotting correspondence of the parents Busner had never know, their serrated postcards, their now blotched but once creamy notepaper folded into thick envelopes that had been extravagantly franked and stamped. All of it he had foreseen himself unpacking, unsheathing and unfolding, so that the pressed flowers bloomed into dust as he read the missives for the first time since their long-gone recipients set the sheets to one side.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.

If you have form'd a Circle to go into, / Go into it yourself & see how you would do.

In the universe there are things that are known and things that are unknown, and in between there are doors.

El camino del exceso conduce al palacio de la sabiduría.

A new music is a new mind.

No defeat is made up entirely of defeat—since the world it opens is always a place formerly unsuspected. A world lost, a world unsuspected beckons to new places and no whiteness (lost) is so white as the memory of whiteness .

Dissonance (if you are interested) leads to discovery

she opened the door! nearly six feet tall, and I . . . wanted to found a new country—

because we have two legs and travelling on foot is the right speed for human beings. Walking sorts out your problems and anxieties, and calms your worries. Living from day to day, from inspiration to inspiration, much of what I have learned as a Jain has come from wandering. Sometimes, even my dreams are of walking.

My, my. A body does get around.

No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.