Quotes About Discovery

a lo largo de toda la juventud te estuve buscando sin saber lo que estaba buscando

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."

I went out to the hazel wood because a fire was in my head cut and peeled a hazel wand and hooked a berry to a thread and when white moths were on the wing and moth-like stars were flickering out I dropped the berry in a stream, and caught a little silver trout.... (Song of Wandering Aengus)

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

I am sure it is everyone's experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly song can help along Yours ever and sincerely: At least we know for certain that we are three old sinners, that this journey is much too long, that we want our dinners, and miss our wives, our books, our dogs, but have only the vaguest idea why we are what we are. To discover how to be human now Is the reason we follow this star.

There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.

no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.

O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed

A critter reveals his true self at midnight.

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.

all I did not know went on beginning around me I had thought it would come later but it had been waiting

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

turning the pages patiently in search of meanings

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.

People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.