Quotes About Discovery

A purpose, I have learned, is rarely found, but revealed. Only when I do not search does the purpose become clear.

Only when I do not search does the purpose become clear.

I have come to believe that mankind eternally hovers on the brinks of secret oceans of which it knows nothing.

If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.

All the rules had to be invented from the beginning. No one knew what the rules were, but gradually figured them out. The basics were: We've got to take a line. We've got to stay up off the floor. We have to have enough light to see. And we have to save enough air to get out.

The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.

We are all adventurers here, I suppose, and wild doings in wild countries appeal to us as nothing else could do. It is good to know that there remain wild corners of this dreadfully civilised world.

Grace perennially waits for us to accept our destruction and, in that acceptance, to discover the power of the Resurrection and the Life.

However grand our sacramental downsittings and updressings may be, they remain only and precisely sacraments: real presences, under particular signs, of the happier order that faith can discover under any and all signs. They're a bit like the church. As long as we see them as an earnest of the kingdom, they're all right; when we put on airs and act as if they were the kingdom itself, they look just silly.

There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."

You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings — there are no such things. There are only middles.

Education is… hanging around until you've caught on.

Do not follow where the path may lead...Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.

It wasn't in books. It wasn't in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of "inspiration." It is the child of invention, of discovery, of applied knowledge -- that is to say, of science. When man becomes great and grand enough to admit that all have equal rights; when thought is untrammeled; when worship shall consist in doing useful things; when religion means the discharge of obligations to our fellow-men, then, and not until then, will the world be civilized.

You could find beauty nearly anywhere if you stopped to look for it,

In a way, an explanation had never been the point. She had simply liked being the only one who wanted to find out the truth.

He was starting to feel like a truffle pig trying to do its job in a room full of incense, dead fish and strong cheese.

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things Virgil, Georgics, Book 2

Robert Galbraith

Robert Galbraith

Robert Galbraith