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Quotes About Discovery

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
~ Max Beerbohm
In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.
~ Rumi
The road is more important than the goal.
~ Gylve Nagell
Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be
~ Aldous Huxley
I think so many times we focus so much on just the end result when when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal. That was never really what it was all about.
~ Apolo Ohno
Do something! Start something! As you make consistent efforts, you will begin to see your goals come into focus. You will discover your mission--the one only you can fulfill.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die
~ Peter McWilliams
It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.
~ Cesar Millan
In the early stages of innovation, your goal is to learn as much as you can as quickly as you can.
~ Scott D. Anthony
Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.
~ William Least Heat-Moon
Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.
~ Jewel
We are lost, but we're making good time.
~ Unknown
The space program needs a goal, and the goal should be humans to Mars.
~ Robert Zubrin
A mark.... is left when you complete your internal quest when you leave........
~ Anonymous
There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.
~ Ravi Zacharias
When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
~ Stephen Fry
I am not a glutton, I am an explorer of food
~ Erma Bombeck
When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me.
~ George Washington Carver
Youth is not measured by the age of a person, but by the curiosity a person keeps.
~ Unknown
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
~ Will Durant
A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.
~ Catherine Crowe
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
~ Agatha Christie
I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.
~ Katherine Dunn