Quotes About Discovery

I try to find myself in things but never quite make it and end up losing myself in them.

Lo que el ego no sabe, por supuesto, es que sólo abandonando la resistencia, haciéndote «vulnerable», puedes descubrir tu verdadera y esencial invulnerabilidad.

El secreto de la vida es "morir antes de morir" y descubrir que no hay muerte.

It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized you could buy a packet of cereal with a free gift and then just stick your hand in and root around in the packet until you found the free thing. It seems a much simpler way. But that took me about fifteen years to work out.

I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.

It is strange how new and unexpected conditions bring out unguessed ability to meet them.

how a force of six or eight fight­ing men could have done so un­ob­served is be­yond me. We shall soon know, how­ev­er, for here comes the roy­al psy­chol­ogist.

So this was love! I had escaped it for all the years I had roamed the five continents and their encircling seas; in spite of beautiful women and urging opportunity; in spite of a half-desire for love and a constant search for my ideal, it had remained for me to fall furiously and hopelessly in love with a creature from another world, of a species similar possibly, yet not identical with mine.

There is much which I have left out; much which I have not dared to tell; but you will find the story of his second search for Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, even more remarkable than was his first

the countless unnamed jewels of Mars

For three days he has pursued me, she said, through this horrible world. How I have passed through in safety I cannot guess, nor how I have always managed to outdistance him; yet I have done it, until just as you discovered me.

could have cried aloud in exultation when my scrutiny disclosed the almost invisible incrustation of particles of carbonized electrons which are thrown off by these Martian torches. It

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I at once ordered a secret search within the city, for every Martian noble maintains a secret service of his own.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs

You didn't find any trace of her? asked d'Arnot. // Tarzan shook his head. None. In the jungle, I could have found her; but here –-here, in civilization, a man cannot even find himself.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs

He was discovering what many young men in love have to discover: that the glamour which surrounds their dears does not extend to the relations and friends of their dears.

East of the sun and west of the moon.

All those who seek truth, seek God, whether this is clear to them or not.

At some point we must plunge in to discover a greater expanse; yet when this broader horizon does appear, a new depth will open up at our point of entry.