Quotes About Discovery

It was only one of a dozen or twenty vocations which he had taken up at various times, only to drop them again as soon as he made the discovery that they one and all entailed months and even years of hard work if he was ever to fulfil his ambitious desire of doing and being something great in the world.

This report inflamed my mind to such a degree that I could not rest by night or day for dreaming golden dreams, and considering how to get to that rich district, unknown to civilized men.

All along the avenue, cotton candy stands, fun houses, and games of chance were tightly shuttered, like clowns without makeup.

William Hjortsberg

Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Royal Adventurers into Africa

If fish were scientists, probably the last thing they would discover is water!

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.

We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

To understand creativity is to conquer the boundaries of time and space.

But in these woods it's best to believe in all possibilities. There's more in these woods than a man can ever hope to understand.

Life's stranger and more beautiful than I ever thought possible.

sometimes the only way a man learns the true spirit of a rock is to stub his toe on it.

Me, I was growing up scrambling for meaning and I was full of confusion and fear.

With every turn of the river since I'd left Lincoln School, the world had become broader, its mysteries more complex, its possibilities infinite.

Why don't the spirits just tell us things, Henry? How come they make it so hard? The old man laughed. I think it is like this. The spirits shoot an arrow. It is past us before we can see it clearly. But if we follow, eventually we come to the place where it has lodged. And we realize the arrow is not important. What is important is the place it has guided us to.

William Kent Krueger

He reached down and pulled something from the ground, then held it out in his hand so that we could see. "A toadstool?" I said. He shook his head. "A morel, tastiest mushroom there is. Been a long while since I went hunting morels. Here," he said to me. "Take this and go see if you can find any more along the river.

William Kent Krueger