Quotes About Discovery

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

We feel that we are greater than we know.

The earth was all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the chosen guide Be nothing better than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way.

Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet:

pick up Trigger and see where this new

Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.

The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell.

It's what we do Rita; we pluck birds from the sky and nail them down to learn how they fly.

I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the side of a white oak tree. I know the handle has long since rotted away with time. Perhaps the rusty frame of a coal-oil lantern still hangs there on the blade.

HAD no idea what was in store for me. To begin with, everything was too perfect

Only by going on an untrod path, by making your own path, by being your singular self, can anyone find his own grail. In

a flagstone path curved into the darkness of space toward… who knows where? I knew—that's knew—I had to follow that path.

Yet he argued that even a tedious topic can take on a certain fascination if you make an effort to look at it afresh: "The subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Tennessee to places like Corinth, Nashville, and even Shiloh, which at that point he'd never heard of.

We know ourselves only as far as we've been tested.

W polowie drogi mojego zywota posrod ciemnego znalazlem sie lasu. Las ten co gorsza byl zielony.

If you were to stare at this box of matches, you could extract entire worlds out of it. If you search for tastes in a book, you will certainly find them because it was said: seek and ye shall find. But a critic should not rifle, search. Let him sit back with folded arms, waiting for the book to find him. Talents should not be sought with a microscope, a talent should let people know about itself by striking at all the bells.

Es gibt kaum eine bessere Möglichkeit, einen Menschen wirklich kennen zu lernen, als ihn zu überraschen.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

How could I not have known that there are little things the size of "Planck length" in the universe, which are a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a centimeter? Imagine if you dropped one in a dark theater how hard it would be to find.

To Nichiren, "freedom" meant not an escape from the realm of changing phenomena but the discovery of an absolute point of reliance within ourselves.