Quotes About Discovery

It is much easier to recognise error than to find truth; for error lies on the surface and may be overcome; but truth lies in the depths, and to search for it is not given to every one.

We are all pilgrims who seek Italy.

Sí; yo no soy otra cosa que un viajero, un peregrino en el mundo. ¿Y tú? ¿Eres algo más?

Error is related to truth as sleeping is to waking. I have observed that when one has been in error, one turns to truth as though revitalized.

Let it go out, the sun's fire, If light dawns inside our souls, In our own hearts we'll discover What the outer world withholds.

It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.

O glücklich, wer noch hoffen kann, aus diesem Meer des Irrtums aufzutauchen! Was man nicht weiß, das eben brauchte man, und was man weiß, kann man nicht brauchen.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be explored.

In the same way, the most restless of travellers ends up pining for his homeland once again, and discovers in his cottage, in the arms of his wife and amidst his children, and in the labours that are necessary to support them, that joy he sought in vain in the wide world.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

Life is adventure, not predicament.

If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will begin to live the life you ought to be living.

First know yourself, then you will begin to understand why things are as they are, and why life is as it is.

This is the great Secret of life.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.

The call to adventure is the point in a person's life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

... the estranged self, hidden with its inexhaustible potential, lies undiscovered by many people who die without even knowing that it exists.

You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.

I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

One must lose one's life to find it.