Quotes About Discovery

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It's like falling in love.

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

Oh, silly woman! Leave your stove, your pots and pans and chores, even if only for one day! Come out and see the sun in the sky and the river in the distance!

There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it.

It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.

Night, I have discovered, has a faintly bitter taste, caused by its large ingredient of Un-attained Possibility.

People need books, but they don't know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence. - Roger Mifflin

You know at once, if you are clairvoyant in these matters (libre-voyant, one might say), when you have met your book. You may dally and evade, you may go on about your affairs, but the paragraph of prose your eye fell upon, or the snatch of verses, or perhaps only the spirit and flavour of the volume, more divined than reasonably noted, will follow you.

There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it. - Roger Mifflin

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue- you sell him a whole new life. -Christopher Morley

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life.

Sa lei perché la gente ora legge più libri di quanto non abbia mai fatto prima? Perché la terrificante catastrofe della guerra le ha fatto comprendere di aver la mente ammalata. Il mondo soffriva di ogni sorta di febbri celebrali, e dolori, e disordini, e non lo sapeva. Ora le nostre angosce mentali sono anche troppo manifeste. Leggiamo tutti avidamente, in fretta, cercando di scoprire, passato il disturbo, che cosa c'era che non andava nella nostra mente.

Sa lei perché la gente ora legge più libri di quanto non abbia mai fatto? Perché la terrificante catastrofe della guerra le ha fatto comprendere di aver la mente ammalata. Il mondo soffriva di ogni sorta di febbri celebrali, e dolori, e disordini, e non lo sapeva. Ora le nostre angosce mentali sono anche troppo manifeste. Leggiamo tutti avidamente, in fretta, cercando di scoprire, passato il disturbo, che cosa c'era che non andava nella nostra mente.

It's spring," Mike said. "Oh, yes, of course, jolly old spring!" said Gissing, as though this was something he had known all along, and had just forgotten for the moment. But he didn't know. This was his first spring, for he was only ten months old.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.

Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar

It is gaol that finally reveals to me the beauty of Shakespeare, the spirit in his words, the jaw-dropping audacity of his language.

A path is made by walking on it.

Bentley mounted Silverwood, look down at his parents, and launched the powerful steed into the kingdom…a kingdom waiting for one young knight to discover the truth of a Stranger.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.

James Clark Maxwell