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Quotes About Discovery

Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your understanding of the world and write about that.
~ Rose Tremain
The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.
~ Kiki Smith
If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon.
~ Doug Rader
Another world exists that I must experience. A genus of people exists who I must meet. I must inhale the air they breathe--share their world at all costs.
~ Hideo Kojima
Seeing the world through the eyes of a child is the purest joy that anyone can experience.
~ Constance Zimmer
The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
~ Elliot W. Eisner
And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.
~ C.P. Cavafy
Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.
~ Oscar Wilde
You can either ask the question or experience the answer.
~ Unknown
I can only think of one experience which might exceed in interest a few hours spent under water, and that would be a journey to Mars.
~ William Beebe
We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.
~ Martin Buber
Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.
~ Augustus Saint-Gaudens
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
~ Margaret Fuller
The person who is willing to say yes to experience is the person who discovers new frontiers.
~ John Templeton
If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
~ John Polkinghorne
Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.
~ George Leigh Mallory
Every experience is worth having.
~ Henry Ford
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.
~ Kenzaburo Oe
You gotta go inward To experience the outer space That was built for you
~ Pharrell Williams
The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
~ Jack Hanna
To discover a city is in itself a unique event, but when we have the privilege of sharing it with friends most dear to us, it becomes a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
~ Reinaldo Arenas
All genuine education comes about through experience.
~ John Dewey
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete
~ Henry James
Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.
~ Clive Barker