Quotes About Discovery

There is something I must do, but it is not here." "Then where is it?" "I do not know." "What is it?" "I do not know.

onward he went, a named thing, rooted in the universe, yet apart from it, through the night and the rain-dancing streets.

The man called Kilimanjaro West watched with wonder and delight and everything was new.

A joyful task,' he says and she realizes that he welcomes the idea of years of searching, tile by tile, inscription by inscription, cornice by cornice and niche by niche, that the painstaking search of Sinan's greatest achievement, decades long, is the holy task; that the secret letter is cut in every stone and tile. By the time you find it, you have realized the supreme unimportance of finding it. A Sufi lesson.

Acknowledgements Reading Group Notes Timeline About the Author By Ian Rankin Copyright Serendipity. According to the dictionary, it means the ability to make 'happy chance finds'. Serendip was the old name for Ceylon. Horace Walpole is credited with coining the term, after the fairy tale 'The Three Princes of Serendip', whose titular heroes were always stumbling across things they weren't looking for.

went to take a look at it. A plaque

It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket.

I've just worked out what the music on the speakers is," he said. "It's John Martyn, Over The Hill." "And ?" "And nothing. It's just, maybe I'm not there yet.

Maxwell's equations didn't just change the world. They opened up a new one.

En realidad, una de las grandes fortalezas de la ciencia es la habilidad para inferir cosas que no podemos observar directamente a partir de las que sí podemos.

What has he found who has lost God? And what has he lost who has found God?

Who lives sees, but who travels sees more.

Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller

IBN FADL?N Ibn Fadl?n and the Land of Darkness Arab Travellers in the Far North Translated with an Introduction by PAUL LUNDE and CAROLINE STONE

All through high school, I was reading Iceberg Slim. He was the first author I discovered who truly delved

In late 2007, I found out I was being transferred out of Donovan, to a different Level III at Ironwood.

I didn't even know there was an open mic competition that night with Kurtis Blow as the judge.

People are always trying to understand. There is only one way to do that. It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand.

The mine is always bigger than the gem.

What you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway.

It is a Sufi contention that truth is not discovered or maintained by the mere repetition of teachings. It can only be kept understood by the perpetual experience of it. And it is in the experience of truth that the Sufis have always reposed their trust. Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.

You may not appreciate Sufism at first, but once you do you will appreciate it until the end of your days.

Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee.