Quotes About Discovery

There was a time when a book could be sold purely because its author had been to distant climes and had returned to tell of the exotic sights he had seen. That author was Marco Polo, and the time was the thirteenth century.

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

The world is full of mostly invisible things,And there is no way but putting the mind's eye,Or its nose, in a book, to find them out,Things like the square root of EverestOr how many times Byron goes into Texas,Or whether the law of the excluded middleApplies west of the Rockies.

What good is intelligence,' Akutagawa asked, 'if you can't ever discover a useful melancholy?

There's a Russian proverb: To taste the ocean, all you need is one gulp.

Outlines can help, but not if you begin with them. If you begin, instead, by writing down everything, by spewing out your ideas as fast as you can type, you will discover the answer to the first question: the fragments you have to work with are the various things you have just written.

write whatever comes into your head, as fast as you can type, without reference to outlines, notes, data, books or any other aids. The object is to find out what you would like to say, what all your earlier work on the topic or project has already led you to believe.

Jung: we only discover what supports us when everything else we thought supported us doesn't support us anymore.

Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. Dag Hammarskjöld

When you do something for the first time, questions and problems are the two things you can count on.

Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.

For the next several miles our trail winds through dramatically lush growth, so vigorous that the trail is completely covered... And, as you physically penetrate this living wall it occurs to you just how far civilization is being left behind.

They who seek God with all their hearts must, however, some day on their way meet Jesus.1

How foolish it is, how terrible, if you have not found your Island of Peace within your own soul. It means you are living without the discovery of your true home.

I began to read. What I discovered in books led me to think, to question, to explore, and finally to redirect my life.

European diseases destroyed the American population more effectively than any weapons and demoralized the survivors by their scale: perhaps 90 per cent of the Indians died of these infections – smallpox, measles, malaria, yellow fever – in the first century after the discoveries. Lastly

It was like suddenly discovering a family of otters in one of your shoes. If you've ever done that.

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

we have discovered a great social secret in Canada. We have contrived to solve problems which would ruin other countries merely by ignoring their existence.

People talk of calf-love with wistful disdain, but mine was as intense as any emotion I knew until I crossed the frontier, years later, when I discovered that all loving is a loving of life in the midst of death.

All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the game being the discovery of the totally unexpected.

I live from one tentative conclusion to the next, thinking each one is final. The only thing i know for sure is that I'am confused.

It's not that we fear the place of darkness but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.

God has designed every component of his creation to display some aspect of his care, and each holds a unique fascination for the human observer. Thus, we can easily engage both young and older minds with some newly discovered feature or fact of nature. If we can make a connection between that discovery and one of God's attributes or a component of God's plan to redeem humanity, we will have provided a stronger motivation for people to seriously investigate the book of Scripture.