Quotes About Discovery

True solitude does not come from being physically alone but from the discovery that a fundamental problem of ours cannot find its solution in us or in others.

These children are so stupid; they think they are the first to discover the world.

Before Irene was a fiancée, she had set out from Staten Island for Washington, DC, the story went, "to find herself." In a family whose eldest aunt was famous for being the first white woman up the Amazon, there was room for such things.

Se há um momento mágico em qualquer viagem é aquele em que se sai do hotel para dar os primeiros passos numa cidade ainda desconhecida.

Un escritor es, más que nada, alguien que posee el don del asombro y sabe transmitirlo. El don de singularizar lo que ve. Porque las cosas esconden siempre algún secreto, un detalle, algo que las hace únicas y que el artista debe descubrir.

One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.

What is love, in the beginning, if not this mapping out, this settling into the other's undulations?

One desire, my friends, one: to kill yourself. You must desire this. You must feel that a voyage of discovery is more important than all the little trips which the normal consumer self wants to buy.

There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we normally live our lives and we'd sort of like to find out what it is.

If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.

She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place each person had to seek for herself, that each heart had to find on its own.

Ed è proprio questa la sensazione che prevale: di poter continuare a camminare all'infinito senza giungere da nessuna parte, oppure in luoghi mai nemmeno immaginati, nascosti. La meraviglia ti aspetta dietro ogni angolo, in fondo a ogni vicolo

Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

Wonder feeds our best intelligence and is perhaps its source.

This is one of the blessings of the urban nature project: without the overtly magnificent to stop us in our tracks, we must seek out the more subversively magnificent. Our sense of what constitutes wildness is expanded, and our sense of wonder along with it.

Wonder, as a quality of intellect, has fallen from favor.

he descubierto que mis obsesiones al servicio de mis pasiones advierten a la que seré el resto de mi vida.

Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before.

She knows she is in Chicago. But she does not yet realize that she is in Illinois.

She found it an interesting exercise to explore a place with a person she did not know well, following not only her own impulses but also his.

What place would that be, a whole world without roads? It was a panicking thought. A world without roads! He would go nowhere in such a place. He would be trapped where he was, he would have lived out his life only where he was born.

Mais tarde descobri que não gosta nem de poesia nem de música. Ainda assim, liguei o toca-discos e dei-lhe os patrícios, Bethânia, Caetano. E se não dei televisão é porque acho aquilo o fim. Embora esteja pensando numa mas só para ver os filmes antigos. E os longas-metragens de vampiros e monstros.