Quotes About Discovery

It is not down on any map; true places never are.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

If thou but settest foot on this path, thou shalt see it everywhere.

The end of all our exploring," as T. S. Eliot reminds us, "will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

We learn by doing, and each new experience is part answer and part question.

the fastest way to get to people we don't already know is through contacts as far away as possible from our daily routine.

intimidad puede ser una carga insoportable para quienes, al experimentarla por primera vez después de una vida entera de autosuficiencia orgullosa, de pronto descubren que era lo que le faltaba a su mundo.

Imagine the relief of finding out that one is not the one one thought one was

Intimacy can be an unbearable burden for those who, first experiencing it after a lifetime of proud self-sufficiency, suddenly realize it makes their world complete.

He left not knowing where he was going, he got there not knowing where he was, and he came back not knowing where he had been. But history books will point out Columbus as the person who made the Americas available for exploitation. I guess I can make the same kind of ridiculous claim.

I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.

This was it. Kiyomi realized it now. This was what her heart had reacted to. Her heart thrilled to mitochondria. But why?

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known. Is it not wonderful, then, that we should be so sensitive upon the discovery of a fault which must of necessity be common to all, and that in its highest degree?

In vino Veritas. In Aqua satietas. In... What is the Latin for Tea? What! Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends.

I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

pointing towards the doorway.

The maid found a handkerchief of hers, under the bed in which she had died. A ring that had been missing turned up in his own writing desk. A tradesman arrived with fabric she had ordered three weeks ago. Each day, some further evidence of a task half finished, a scheme incomplete. He found a novel, with her place marked. And this is it.

I was bound to step out of line, if only because I did not know where the line was: if only because I did not know anything.

When you become a great man, you meet kinsfolk you never knew you had.

For I chase but one hind, he says, one strange deer timid and wild, and she leads me off the paths that other men have trod, and by myself into the depths of the wood.