Quotes About Discovery

You'll know who you are when you start losing things,' Doris said.

Because answers are inert things that stop inquiry. They make you think you have finished looking. But you are never finished. There are always discoveries that will turn everything you think you know on its head and that will make you ask all over again: Who are we?

Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.

It is often while you are looking for something else entirely that you make the most amazing finds.

walking along a lonely beach, seen a beautiful shell lying in the sand, but had passed it by; and now, on her return, there it was again, waiting for her to pick it up in her fingers.

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

Everyone is always learning something new," my father would remind me when he checked to see if I was doing my homework and found me gazing out the window at the stars. "If not, why be alive?

With intellectual curiosity the world will always be full of magic and wonder.

Develop some intellectual curiosity. If you have it, you will never be bored. If you haven't, cultivate it, hold fast to it. Never let it go. To the intellectually curious, the world will always be full of magic, full of wonder. You will be interesting to your friends, to your spouse, and a joy to your children. You will be alive to all the wonderful possibilities of this world.

Nor ever yet the melting rainbow's vernal-tinctur'd hues to me have shone so pleasing, as when first the hand of science pointed out the path in which the sun-beams gleaming from the west fall on the watery cloud.

I knew you were meant to kiss girls, but there was something else that you were meant to do first, and I didn't know what that was.

Don't accumulate possessions; accumulate experiences!

Any detail can be magnified to reveal even more detail ad infinitum. The technical term is "infinite complexity." Fractals are the theological equivalent of what theologians call the incomprehensibility of God. Just when we think we have God figured out, we discover a new dimension of His kaleidoscopic personality.

Most of us will have no idea where we are going most of the time. And I know that is unsettling. But circumstantial uncertainty also goes by another name: Adventure.

When we go adventuring with Jesus, He takes us places we never dreamed we could go, gives us ideas we never thought we could have, and gives us friends that last forever.

If you want to discover your God-ordained passions, then you need to identify what makes you sad, mad, or glad.

Part of discovering the adventure God has designed you for is learning how to frame it or reframe it.

Si buscas las respuestas, no las vas a hallar; pero si buscas a Dios, las respuestas te encontrarán a ti.

A. W. Tozer once said, "Eternity won't be long enough to discover all that God is or praise him for all that he's done."6

Has God ever called you to throw something down? Something in which you find your security or put your identity? It's awfully hard to let go, isn't it? It feels like you are jeopardizing your future. And it feels like you could lose what is most important to you. But that is when you discover who you really are.

It sounds strange to hear people talk about the delights and miracles of technology, when they do not even begin to compare with what you can find in a riverbed.

Um . . . guys? If I, say, noticed a crack in a wall in a tunnel and a cold, creepy draft came out of it and it smelled like three-day-old lasagna, would you, um, want to know about that?" Murdock and I exchanged glances. "You invited him," I said. "Show us the crack, Joe," Murdock said. Joe turned around and lowered his loincloth.

You can know an animal - or a person, for that matter - in an instant, really, though your understanding can go on unfolding for years.

I need to be invited onto the back of a motorcycle and taken somewhere unfamiliar now and then; I welcome a degree of disruption, need a curtain pulled back, a hallway leading into some part of the world I've never seen.