Quotes About Discovery

Look out there, my little princess," he called down to her. "These plants are only the very tip of the earth's treasures, almost like hairs on her head. She hides so many other secrets deep within her, and one day, if you're lucky, you may find some of them.

Lord, reveal what holds my mind hostage. Show me what I fear the most. Go ahead, help me face what terrifies me.

At about four and with sore feet I spotted an old rusty sign for a "minshuku" — a small family-run homestay.

Jesus said if you seek Him you will find Him. I often wonder to myself why this marvelous gift of eternal life through Christ is often the last option of people rather than the first.

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

much of poetry in the making is the fiddle with a few items. You lay a word against another and wait. You try another word. And another. Yet another. You wait. You begin again. Listening. Looking. For the elusive inevitable thing which has to arrive before it is recognised. And, like Odysseus, may not be recognised at first.

I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.

In London, "I know the answer" was never as exciting as "I'm not sure but I may have found a way.

On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

Steve Jobs was quoted in Business Week as saying "A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

AFTER OBSESSING OVER THE RELATIONSHIP OF ALL KNOWN CHEMICAL elements in 1869, the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev fell asleep, and the solution came to him: the structure of the periodic table.

Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death

Consciesness is just like a light particle. It may discover only the surface it can reach. While on our own, we like to believe that what we see is real. But when we come together, what we see is truth. Here is why we should learn to connect, understand and discover the world we share, with one another.

I stopped moving backwards, trying to recapture the past, there might be a future waiting for me, waiting for us, a future that would reveal itself if only I turned around and looked, and that once I did, I could start to move toward it.

Pátzcuaro and in the shops that catered to them, and we couldn't read the signs above the storefronts as we passed them, so we peered in every window along the way to see what was inside.

I kissed her again and again and again, greedily, like I was making up for the time I'd lost, like I was making up for all the times I might not get to kiss her again once our parents found out what we'd done, like I was making up for my whole life when I hadn't known her, which seemed unbelievable and like a crime.

Muchos poetas han escrito que pasamos por el mundo como peregrinos, que la vida no es más que un viaje. Una viajera anónima del siglo XVI escribía en sus notas <>.

Toda nuestra vida ha sido una búsqueda de lo inesperado, de lo desconocido, y sobre todo de la libertad, la búsqueda de este tesoro escondido al pie del arco iris , y poco importa si no lo hemos hallado, buscándolo hemos hecho de nuestra vida la más bella de las aventuras", Martin Johnson en África.

We're all of us prospectors up here, eh, Tyler? Scratchin' for that... that one crack in the ground. Never have to scratch again. I'll let you in on a little secret, Tyler: the gold's not in the ground. The gold's not anywhere up here. The real gold is south of 60 - sittin' in livin' rooms, stuck facin' the boob tube, bored to death. Bored to death, Tyler...Boredom - that's what's wrong. And how do you beat boredom, Tyler?... Adventure.

I'm not lost,I'm just in between places I recognize.

I viewed this image inside of a box and pictured the edges of the box reaching outer space. I knew the Divine would have to create the path; I wasn't innovative enough to do so. Within a few days, an entirely unexpected outcome emerged.

He'd found "Jane" first. Finders fuckin keepers.

What would you like to do tonight?" Go to the moon with you.

One of the most important discoveries wa that 'six cylinders had sex appeal.' The man or woman behind the wheel had a particular allure that was not lost upon the opposite sex.