Quotes About Discovery

Come, let's go snow-viewing till we're buried.

Indeed, one of the greatest pleasures of travelling was to find a genius hidden among weeds and bushes, a treasure lost in broken tiles, a mass of gold buried in clay, and when I did find such a person, I always kept a record with the hope that I might be able to show it to my friends.

Não buscamos imitar os mestres, procuramos o que eles procuravam.

Every turn of the road brought me new thoughts and every sunrise gave me fresh emotions.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.

The moment I saw the Count on TV…it was as if the room filled with color and I was able to understand things for the very first time.

I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like, I have all this passion that wants to explode, but I don't know where to aim it yet.

He wondered how his nana always found beautiful where he never even thought to look.

sometimes you find your path gets blocked, and you have to take a step back – back home, even – to move forward.

Interpreting running as an opportunity to discover and become his best self, and to give his best to others, through the relentless pursuit of toughness, or guts—a kind of courage.

Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.

Having sex in new locations can be exciting, like when Neil Armstrong fucked the moon.

When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person. But once you sense that vastness, once something reveals it, hope emerges, whether you want it to or not, and it clings to you as stubbornly as lichen clings to rock.

Music doesn't get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn't necessarily know you had inside you, and runs around waking them all up. A rebirth of sorts.

To know which path to take, it helps to take a few wrong ones.

And yet we had done what so often happened in the proud history of geographic discovery. We had found paradise. And then we had set it on fire.

In a thousand years, if humans survive that long, everything you know will have been disproved. And replaced by even bigger myths.

I may have not been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

It turned out to be near impossible to stand in a library and not want to pull things from the shelves.

Librarians have knowledge. They guide you to the right books. The right worlds. They find the best places. Like soul-enhanced search engines." "Exactly. But you also have to know what you like. What to type into the metaphorical search box. And sometimes you have to try a few things before that becomes clear.

I've never had a coconut chilli Martini before,' I tell him. 'That's the thing with getting older. You run out of new things to try.' 'Oh, I don't know,' he says, still the optimist. 'I have lived beside one ocean or another most of my life and I have yet to see the same wave twice. It's the mana, you see. It's everywhere. It's never still. It keeps the world new. The whole planet is a coconut chilli Martini.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.' Experience surrounds innocence and innocence can never be regained once lost.

Just give yourself one simple reminder that the world is full of wonders. Even if we are at a point in life where we can't appreciate things, it sometimes helps to remember there are things in this world to enjoy, when we are ready.