Quotes About Discovery

So the first Seers, watching the wanderings of thought within their own minds, discovered that there was something which came into action when thinking momentarily stopped. That Something was the first faint intimation of the soul. Thus the science of soul-discovery was born and the ancients began to teach men how to know the truth about themselves. In

Of what use is unrealized divinity to anyone? If he is unconscious of his higher self, is a man any better off? The link of being linked with God potentially is not enough. It must also be personally discovered, felt, known, and demonstrated in living activity.

In the early stages of enlightenment, the aspirant is overwhelmed by his discovery that God is within himself. It stirs his intensest feelings and excites his deepest thoughts. But, though he does not know it, those very feelings and thoughts still form part of his ego, albeit the highest part. So he still separates his being into two—self and Overself. Only in the later stages does he find that God not only is within himself but is himself.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

The story he told me was "per sfogarsi," as Bayle loved to say; his idea was that I would not discover the real hero. I shall always believe that it was his own story under another name, and I love to believe it because it was so exactly his way of looking at things...

Good salespeople use questions to learn something about their buyers.

Great salespeople use questions to help buyers learn something about themselves.

This is someone who can discover the workplace frustrations of a prospective customer.

We are not really spying, we're just satisfying our curiosity.

In each chapter of this book, I'll be peeling back a very thin layer of that onion (hopefully without the tears).

So," he said to Sefton, "you knew that ghosts were real...and you led us to the 'most haunted building in London.' What's up with that?

Pity,' said Costain. 'I've always wanted to be working on a case where the dots on a map formed a pattern.

Magic let you jump over the "why" and make use of what was hidden, all from the comfort of your kitchen sink.

since I got here I've had a bit of a look for where the music's coming from, and I can't find it. And I have the nose of a bloodhound. In my pocket.

You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3.

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

You don't need to read a mystery novel; your life is a mystery to you.

Perhaps in ways that you have never come close to considering, your dissatisfaction is an awe problem.

from birth we are all philosophers, we are all theologians, and we all function like archeologists, digging through the mound of our existence to make sense of it all.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. G. K. CHESTERTON

Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe.

Recent discoveries about the primeval cosmos oblige us to accept that the expanding universe has been set up in its motion with a cooperation of astonishing precision.

Microbe hunting is a story of amazing stupidities, fine intuitions, insane paradoxes.

Ik leef niet, ik zit hier en kijk, terwijl ik schrijf zie ik, ontdek ik wat ik tevoren niet wist, ik vind stukjes van een puzzel waaraan ik misschien mijn hele leven zal werken, nooit komt het legwerk klaar want het verleden wisselt voortdurend van gedaante volgens het heden (dat niets anders is dan de kop van dit verleden) en de toekomst (die morgen de kop van dit verleden zal zijn).