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Quotes About Discovery

What we call happiness is what we do not know.
~ Anatole France
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
~ Tom Stoppard
Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.
~ Charlton Ogburn
Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.
~ Cathie Pelletier
He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does.
~ Erin Morgenstern
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
~ Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
I look at the hundreds of algebra problems facing me in the next three days.And here I thought I'd figured out the equation to my happiness.
~ Elizabeth Eulberg, Take a Bow
What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.
~ Gabrielle Dubois
There is a whole world out there waiting to have fun. Show them how it's done!
~ Gary Rudz
The unhappy people of the known paths must certainly try the unknown paths in their search of happiness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The best part of traveling is finding yourself.
~ Ken Poirot
Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest
~ it never ceases.
Harriet never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought, I could always learn.
~ Louise Fitzhugh
I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
~ Andrew Solomon
I explored because I was feeling really crappy, and I wanted to know why
~ Steven Magee
These words reveal the child's inner needs; 'Help me to do it alone'.
~ Maria Montessori
I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.
~ Trent Parke
It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
~ Judith Martin
Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.
~ George Lucas
I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
~ Bas Rutten
I think I'm always drawn to projects that help me understand something about myself.
~ Sofia Coppola
It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
~ Paul Nurse
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
~ Barbara Kingsolver