Quotes About Discovery

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

If you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle.

As LEGO found out more than a decade ago, the question "What are you most proud of?" can yield surprising and transformative answers.

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

Fernando Pessoa ha scritto che dovremmo lavare il nostro destino come laviamo il nostro corpo. Sono d'accordo, ma non ho ancora trovato il sapone giusto.

Once you crack the code, every building, every field, every street becomes more significant, more fascinating, more revealing. And with each new discovery, you learn more about yourself.

[On extraterrestrial life:] Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Aiden would have laughed. But obviously he had not found anything even

Susie: Maybe we're all making everything up as we go.

A person should have several names throughout life, and a secret name as well.

The cave you fear to enter, goes the ancient proverb, holds the treasure you seek.

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

It's the only thing that's never been tried.

Yeshua said, Whoever has come to know the world has discovered a carcass, and whoever has discovered a carcass, of that person the world is not worthy.

Deficiency of matter is not from the infinity of the father, who came to give time to deficiency. In fact, it is not right to say that the incorruptible would actually come in this manner. The father's depth is profound, and the thought of error is not with him. It is something that has fallen, and something that can readily be set upright through the discovery of the one who has come to what he would restore.

The tree had become our unspoken symbol of that important Christmas when we had all dug deep and fought for one another--for our survival. For our family. For our happiness. And in the process, discovering the true meaning of Christmas.

Life is more about the journey than the destination

That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

Finding your voice is like finding your self.

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

I was at a most impressionable age when I was transplanted to the new soil. I was in that period when even normal children, undisturbed in their customary environment, begin to explore their own hearts, and endeavor to account for themselves and their world.

Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?