Quotes About Discovery

Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

this is the first part of this precious manuscript

It needs misfortune to be able to dig up in those secret mines, which are hidden in man's soul.

So, summoning up all the power of her will, she tried to shut her eyes, but this operation of the most fearful of our senses, an operation that is normally so simple, at that moment became almost impossible to carry out, so strongly did eager curiosity struggle to push back her eyelids and discover the truth.

O grande ville  ! c'est dans ton sein palpitant que j'ai trouvé ce que je cherchais

Ci vuole la sciagura per scavare certe miniere misteriose nascoste nell'intelligenza umana; ci vuole la pressione per far esplodere la polvere.

Así como es necesaria la presión para hacer estallar la pólvora, así el infortunio es necesario también para descubrir ciertas minas misteriosas ocultas en la inteligencia humana.

Ne craignez pas les occasions et cherchez les aventures.

relates that on his first visit to M.

he looked up with the satisfied air of a man who thinks he has made a discovery when he has commented on someone else's idea

Su horizonte se iba ensanchando más y más, pero no ese horizonte sombrío y lleno de terrores en el que se arrastraba antes de su sueño, sino un horizonte azul, transparente y vasto, con todo lo que el mar tiene de tintas mágicas, con todo lo que el sol tiene de luz, y todo lo que la brisa tiene de perfumes.

a man can only console himself for a lost affection by the discovery of a new one.

Servono le sventure per scavare certe miniere misteriose nascoste nell'intelligenza umana; serve la pressione per far esplodere la polvere.

In the midst of the apparent diversity of human affairs, a certain number of primary facts may be discovered, from which all others are derived.

Although the vast country which we have been describing was inhabited by many indigenous tribes, it may justly be said at the time of its discovery by Europeans to have formed one great desert. The Indians occupied without possessing it.

One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.

There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone — maybe even more alone — than I was…

They say the truest beauty is in the harshest land and that God can be found there by those with open eyes.