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Quotes About Discovery

As you plunge into learning some art or skill, the world around you appears new and bursting with infinite horizons. Each day brims with new discoveries as you take your tentative first steps, slowly pushing the bounds of exploration. You make mistakes, but even these are empowering, because they are mistakes you have never made before.
~ Tom Vanderbilt
When there are too many choices, or the answer does not seem obvious, it seems better to go with the flow; after all, you might miss out on something good.
~ Tom Vanderbilt
I walked 500 miles just to see a halo, when I opened my eyes I was blind as can be.
~ Tom Waits
By one estimate, more books were printed in the first fifty years after Gutenberg's discovery than had been copied by all the scribes in Europe in the previous thousand years.
~ Tom Wheeler
Watson recorded that he "could unmistakably hear the tones of [Bell's] voice and almost catch a word now and then.
~ Tom Wheeler
Later that evening, Alexander Graham Bell wrote to his father, "I feel that I have at last found the solution of a great problem and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid on to houses just like water and gas is, and friends will converse with each other without leaving home.
~ Tom Wheeler
Consumers accessing the newly available books often discovered they were farsighted and needed glasses.
~ Tom Wheeler
How many roads must a man walk down before he admits he is lost?
~ Unknown
I am convinced that we are here for a reason and when I figure it out I will let you know.
~ Unknown
The best place to find a new mine is next door to an old mine.
~ Unknown
We thought we had elevated animal behavior to an art form. But then we met Ozzy.
~ Tommy Lee
The ocean and outer space are the same thing... There's no air. It's bleak and it's lonely... Humans have walked on the surface of the moon, but we still haven't been to the deepest part of the ocean.
~ Unknown
So at twelve, I discovered that alcohol could dull pain and saw it as a friend. It was only in later years I realized that a friendship with a bottle can overnight turn into a relationship with the enemy.
~ Unknown
O segredo que não contei a meu pai foi o segredo que escondi a mim mesma. Minha mãe sabia. O único medo que ele tinha era que ela descobrisse. Assim, esse foi o dia em que nosso jogo começou.
~ Unknown
señor del castillo–. No han encontrado a los Caballeros Rojos, pero sí sus huellas. –Sí –
~ Unknown
Maybe there´s no home, just road´s end.
~ Unknown
One can din happiness in a variety of places. It can be in a busy city of many, such as Solas; but it may also be alone, deep in a tranquil forest. It is not always among your kind" -Rovender
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
Vaya —exclamó—. ¿Dónde estamos? Una fuerte carcajada sonó por encima de sus cabezas. —Casi nunca llegan tan lejos..., o tan cerca, según cómo se mire —dijo una criatura encaramada en un árbol.
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
Para qué quieres eso? —preguntó Mallory mientras cruzaban la avenida Dulac siguiendo el mapa. —Para atrapar cosas —contestó Simon sin mirarla a los ojos. —¿Qué clase de cosas? ¿Es que no tienes ya suficientes animales?.
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
Welcome to the real world, Mother Robot, a beautiful and dangerous place. Now you can truly begin to live.
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
Your answers lie here," Rovender said, gesturing around the library.
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
Our heads will happen cold when this is found.
~ Tony Harrison
I'm remembering something else, too. That remark you made to me about Shakespeare. I asked the woman at the library about Othello, and she got me a copy. He was just about as stupid as me. But with me, I didn't have someone egging me on. I did it to myself. Looking for a treasure when I already had one.
~ Tony Hillerman
But where was home for this boy who had hunted heaven?
~ Tony Hillerman