Quotes About Discovery

When opportunity knocks, some people are in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

If your children see that you are seeking, they will seek—the finding part is up to God.

All my life I had wanted to travel but what I discovered that year was that the things that you find out become the places that you go and sometimes you find them out by being jettisoned off alone and other times it is the people who choose to stand by your side who give you the clues. But the important things that happen to you will happen to you even in the smallest places...

Sometimes it is good to have things happen to you outside of your control. There are parts of yourself you would never discover otherwise.

I left parts of myself some places and found others unexpectedly. New people appeared on the scene and others disappeared before I had a chance to say goodbye. All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give your heart to.

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

This emptiness, it turned out, was a revolutionary discovery, full of possibilities to free me from my lifelong blind faith in realism, which suddenly seemed so naïve and simpleminded.

I think we must reflect more on what democracy in the exercise of authority would mean. Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new 'truth' to be 'discovered' by a new majority tomorrow?

It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened; some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone.

I am astounded at how long it takes to discover... for the first time, the things I have learned... over and over again all my life.

How much of what we dismiss today may have been based on fragmentary observation, centuries ago, before the very existence of a scientific framework began to condition what facts we would and would not discover?

Knowledge has a trick of paying off in unexpected ways.

Monstrosities could be slain; but first they must be understood

Their flight was not less exhilarating for being explainable.

But I couldn't stop there. The call of adventure was much stronger and more inviting.

Perjalanan yang mengandung banyak peristiwa itu aku nilai berhasil. Kami telah temukan wanita yang kami cari itu. Benar sekali, ibu itu tidak bisa diajak bicara. Kami dapat memahami. Ia terikat pada sumpah Buru. Sampai hari tuanya, tanpa sesuatu harapan pun kecuali mati, ia tetap setia pada sumpahnya; sumpah untuk menyangkal diri, asal, kebudayaan, dan peradaban sendiri. Sumbernya tetap sama; malu kembali pada keluarga.

She is like a meteor shooting off by itself, traveling through space, knowing no bounds, who knows ehere eventually to come to ground, on another planet or back on our earth again, or to disappear in the infinity of nature.

Understand. Delight in the discovery of life. Delight in the discovery of this breath. Delight in the discovery of the divine that resides inside of you.

In the spiritual life every person is his or her own discoverer, and you need not grieve if your discoveries are not believed in by others. It is your business to push on find more and increase individual happiness

Well, such a thing may be, though I cannot now see it" you remove a great barrier to the carrying out and realization by yourself of the new and strange possibilities in store for you.

Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.

We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.

We work out our own thoughts in our own words, not to please, not to impress, but to discover what it is that we have to say.