Quotes About Discovery

One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

The greatest task of a human being, your greatest mission in life? To find and sing your own song … to the glory of God.

The more I discover what I am, the more miserable I get; the more I discover who God is and who God made me, the happier I become.

In sum, if Jesus isn't surprising you, you've probably stopped growing spiritually.

Truth is both reason and revelation—and both can surprise us.

Everything that surrounds you can give you something.51 —Hungarian photographer André Kertész

Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.

To become an artist you have to be curious.

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and, above all others, the most useful.

Pero así cómo el ojo ve primero lo que está al sol y después con asombro y alegría descubre en la sombra un tesoro

With his bare hands Mulder dug at the loose earth. After a minute, he said, 'I've go it. I just have to pull it out and-' He got no further. He and Scully were blinded by a high power flashlight. When their vision cleared, they saw the sheriff looming over them, brandishing an ugly-looking .45. 'May I ask what you're doing?' he growled. Mulder held up what he had found in the earth: a piece of raw potato. 'Exhuming your potato,' was all he could say.

I felt as though I was rushing into a burning building to discover the ideas I needed for my own life.

Books were in the world; the world was in books.

For those who are afflicted with book lust, those for whom reading is more than information or escape, the road to our passion is quite simple, paved merely by the presence of the printed matter. It's a common story; fill in your own blanks: I was -- years old when I happened on a novel called --, and within six months I had read every other book by the writer known as --.

sen kimsin? diye sordu t?rt?l. alice, biraz utanarak ben-ben ÅŸimdi pek bilmiyorum bay?m, en az?ndan bu sabah kalkt???mda kim olduÄŸumu biliyordum ama galiba o zamandan beri birkaç defa deÄŸiÅŸtim.

When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!

I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet—and yet—it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!

But if I'm not the same, the next question is, 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!

her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass. There was no label this time with the words 'DRINK ME,' but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips. 'I know SOMETHING interesting is sure to happen,' she said to herself, 'whenever I eat or drink anything; so I'll just see what this bottle does.

They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed it with smiles and soap.

The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.

but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?

Down the Rabbit-Hole

about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?' (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either