Quotes About Discovery

Perhaps you have always known everything important but will need a lifetime to discover what you know.

We have all been brought into the world for some reason, and we must wonder why and hope to learn.

He, too, had been glassed-in for a long time, by choice. Now and then he had lifted a hammer to shatter through to something, but he had never struck the blow because he didn't know what he wanted on the other side of the glass.

One discovers weeping - one's weeping personality - only upon weeping. It is a strange discovery, not only to others but to oneself. p 49

One discovers weeping—one's weeping personality—only upon weeping. It is a strange discovery, not only to others but to oneself

There are two ways that you can learn about the world. You can travel or you can read.

Spy (1973) Many years ago, I was sent to spy out the land beyond the age of thirty. And I stayed there and didn't go back to my senders, so as not to be made to tell about this land and made to lie.

its kinda like the quest for the Holy Grail. Who gives a shit what the Holy Grail is, the quest is what's important. The transformation is within yourself, that's what is important.

It was in the shady groves of dictionaries that Jack fell in love.

So now I started playing hardball; now I picked the Dictaphone up and demanded to know about the shrapnel, for Harvey has some shrapnel in his groin, I know he does, and he knows I know. A doctor found it in a routine X-ray in 1991, forty-seven years after Harvey thought it had been removed. I was sixteen at the time, EMF had a hit with "Unbelievable" and I was wearing harem pants. If

Even if you fear it you're curious to see it.

Now, every time I learn something more about him, I like him less. So you see, we were better off the way we were.

Those who read Middlemarch in that way will find little in Their Eyes Were Watching God to please them. It's about a girl who takes some time to find the man she really loves. It is about the discovery of self in and through another.

Maybe I put it wrong, I'm not a philosopher. To me it means something simple, like to say the future is already there, waiting for you. Why not wait, see what it brings?

Mes suvokiame, koks godulys slepiasi širdyje, tik tada, kai išgirstame skambant sidabr? kišen?je

They always say that people should give relationships time to develop. That sooner or later a person's real traits will be exposed. I should have listened to they.

he set out for Berkeley County, Virginia, to tell his people of the magnificent country he had discovered.

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology

Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object outside of literature. Writing as a sylistic exercise seemed barren to me. Poetry as the art of the word made me yawn. I also understood that I couldn't sustain myself very long on the poems of others. I had to go out from myself and literature, look around in the world and lay hold of other spheres of reality.

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside to see what it was.

There is two things everybody got to find out for theirselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.

you got tuh go there tuh know there.

It's uh known fact...you got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo' papa and yo' mama and nobody else can't tell yuh and show yuh.

Oh to be a pear tree—any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world! She was sixteen. She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her. Where were the singing bees for her?