Quotes About Discovery

I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know.

But they left their treasure, gold and more gold. Some of it is found- but the finders never tell, because you see they'd only get one-third then: that's the law of treasure. They want it all, so never speak of it.

How can I discover truth I thought and that thought led me nowhere. No one would tell me the truth.

When my first love affair came to an end I wrote this poem: I didn't know I didn't know I didn't know.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home--they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and when they crumble me between their fingers, it will be you they find.

It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea. Or the people who found Atlantis.

I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.

And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.

Slightest accidents open up new worlds.

To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run...

what he told himself on those sea-soaked nights...Others joined in and it was discovered that every light had a story-no, every light was a story. And the flashes themselves were the stories going out over the waves, as markers and guides and comfort and warning.

There's so little wonder left in the world because we've seen everything one way or another'.

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

What I want does exist if I dare to find it.