Quotes About Discovery

You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.

We fell into the love that had been lying beneath our love like water below ice, and understood that while we had been having a lot of fun together we had only been skating on the surface, and now we were in as deep as we could go.

If a hungry dog looks for food, he does not look in the doghouse.

Most interesting things in our lives happens in our absence

When they saw the host of chameleon butterflies and the way they both clothed the girl Ayesha and provided her with her only solid food, these visitors were amazed, and retreated with confounded expectations, that is to say with a hole in their pictures of the world that they could not paper over.

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Then she found him. - And maybe he'd invented her, too, a little bit, invented someone worth rushing out of one's old life to love. - Nothing so remarkable in that. Happens often enough; and the two inventors go on, rubbing the rough edges off one another, adjusting their inventions, moulding imagination to actuality, learning how to be together; or not. It works out or it doesn't.

At an English boarding school in the early 1960s, he quickly discovered, there were three bad mistakes you could make, but if you made only two of the three you could be forgiven. The mistakes were: to be foreign; to be clever; and to be bad at games […]. He made all three mistakes. He was foreign, clever, non-sportif.

Sometimes it is necessary to touch bottom in order to know which way is up; to go a long distance down the wrong road before you know the right way

Pandora, possessed by the unleashed contents of her box.

It was on the Wednesday after the great storm that Mr. Geronimo first noticed that his feet no longer touched the ground.

But the jungle, like all refuges, was entirely other - was both less and more - than he had expected.

Instead of making myself write the book I ought to write, the novel that was expected of me, I conjured up the book I myself would have liked to read, the sort by an unknown writer, from another age and another country, discovered in an attic. ITALO CALVINO

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

To see how fully our moral intuitions must shift, consider what would happen if we discovered a cure for human evil. Imagine that every relevant change in the human brain could now be made cheaply, painlessly, and safely. In fact, the cure could be put directly into the food supply, like vitamin D. Evil would become nothing more than a nutritional deficiency.

I remember thinking, "Far out, I can't believe this," when I started riding waves. Then I was starting to imagine where it could take me.

Growing up, I wanted to be a sports commentator. Then my aunt introduced me to the fashion industry, and everything sort of fell into place.

The Game gives you a Purpose. The Real Game is, to Find a Purpose.

When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.

Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Adversity often activates a strength we did not know we had.

Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue.

Through adversity, not only are we given opportunity to discover our inner strength, we are also given the gift of foresight so we can shine a light for others who go through the experience after us.

Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength.