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Quotes About Discovery

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
~ John Muir
Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.
~ Alice Neel
Where else can you be as free as by yourself in the middle of nowhere, or in the middle of the ocean, or on the peak of a mountain. Adventure is freedom.
~ Daniel Norris
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
~ Samuel Butler
The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.
~ Carrie Mae Weems
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
~ Frederick Douglass
A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see.
~ Rumi
Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The only freedom is the freedom from the known.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.
~ Frank Gehry
The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.
~ Daniel H. Pink
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
~ Andre Malraux
For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.
~ John Charles Polanyi
Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
~ Ayn Rand
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
~ Sam Mendes
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.
~ Rebecca Solnit
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
~ Barry Goldwater
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.
~ Ayn Rand
I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe.
~ Harriet Martineau
I've always discovered things for myself, in marvelous freedom.
~ Indira Gandhi