logo

Quotes About Discovery

The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.
~ John Desmond Bernal
I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.
~ Dominic Monaghan
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
~ Andre Breton
Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
~ T. H. White
When you start a new project, no matter if it's a movie like Enigma or an album like Goddess, you are always learning something. While I search, I find something new.
~ Mick Jagger
Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas, and to learn from our pupils as we teach them.
~ Hans Zinsser
And always, there was the magic of learning things.
~ Betty Smith
Fun is just another word for learning.
~ Raph Koster
The potential for engaged learning is inversely proportionate to the knowability of the outcome.
~ Gever Tulley
Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.
~ Renee Fleming
I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting
~ Norton Juster
Thinking is itself, however, an adventure.
~ James V. Schall
The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
~ Lev Grossman
Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.
~ Samuel Johnson
I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.
~ Vonda N. McIntyre
I'm a city girl and I never really lived in the country, so I'm learning about that.
~ Shirley MacLaine
I think that's the hardest part for an artist is finding their voice and learning how to write, finding what they have to say that is unique.
~ Morgan James
Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm still learning that there are no mistakes, only discoveries.
~ Fernando Araujo Perdomo
We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.
~ Sara Sheridan
Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes.
~ Ramona Koval
The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.
~ Lucy Larcom
There's a cure for aging that no one talks about. It's called learning.
~ Robin Sharma
A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.
~ Alice Weaver Flaherty