Quotes About Discovery

Heaven lies around us in our infancy.

We don't know much about our current selves, do we?

I had never met the Roman Catholuc Church outside of a history book. To come across it living, so to speak, was like finding a diplodocus.

Si accorse che cominciava a capire come fosse faticosa quella vita, nella quale ogni sentiero era nuovo, e una parte considerevole del tempo in cui si stava svegli si doveva passarla a guardarsi i piedi.

This dreadful eruption from an unknown world

live your life its pain its pleasure leave no path untaken

With any luck at all," he said, "we should soon be safely in the Fire Swamp.

Who are those guys?

I'm tired of the same surprise. I think I'm like most of us in that I want to believe the image. Don't tell me Clint Eastwood hates horses, I don't want to know it.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. [ The Sick Chamber ( The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]

Travel's greatest purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.

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

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.

Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea.

in our Father's house are many mansions, and each of us must discover for himself the kind of religion and the amount of saintship which best comports with what he believes to be his powers and feels to be his truest mission and vocation.

What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war: something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible.

I have always held the opinion that one of the first duties of a good reader is to summon other readers to the enjoyment of any unknown author of rare quality whom he may discover in his explorations.

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

I'm Margarita Staples." She bowed in her harness. "Extreme librarian. Bookaneer.

We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.