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Quotes About Discovery

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.
~ Hans Zimmer
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
~ James Joyce
Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.
~ Richard Rohr
Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut
~ Alexander Graham Bell
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
~ Joseph Campbell
...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
~ Christopher McCandless
Life to me is an adventure and you've got to experience everything.
~ Joey Ramone
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
~ Joseph Campbell
They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.
~ Viola Davis
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
~ Linus Pauling
The experience of life in a finite, limited body is specifically for the purpose of discovering and manifesting supernatural existence.
~ Pythagoras
Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.
~ Alan Bennett
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
~ Walt Disney
The fish will be the last to discover water.
~ Jerome Bruner
I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.
~ Ray Charles
Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.
~ Julia Alvarez
The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life.
~ Charles Willson Peale
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.
~ Eckhart Tolle
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
~ Susan Sontag
Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
~ Ian Mckellen
Soon after, there comes the crunch of boots, and, disoriented, you shout, 'Annihilation! Annihilation!
~ Jeff Vandermeer