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Quotes About Discovery

Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk
~ Antonio Machado
In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
~ Armstrong Williams
I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.
~ Graciela Iturbide
We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
~ Henry David Thoreau
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
~ Henry David Thoreau
For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.
~ Ian Bogost
Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
~ Isaac Asimov
I have been searching for time past all my life.
~ Jeanloup Sieff
Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself
~ William Deresiewicz
My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.
~ William Shirley
I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology
~ Zbigniew Herbert
You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.
~ Salman Rushdie
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
~ Samuel Johnson
There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Never underestimate your life. It is most precious. You never know what talents are hidden within you and what you have to offer to the world!
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When you embrace the uncertain, life opens up unusual new paths. Seeds sown way back bloom as flowers, in ways one can never fathom.
~ Subroto Bagchi
Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
~ Wellington Mara
Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.
~ Max Muller
How many pages are there in my life?? I've read only a prologue.. But personally it's exciting already.
~ Minzy
I don't see why there is no intelligent alien life in the universe.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
The moment that he begins to walk along it, the warrior of the light recognizes the path.
~ Paulo Coelho
When you find your way you cannot be scared. You need to be brave enough to take wrong steps. The deceptions, failures, lack of enthusiasm, are tools that God places in our way to reveal the path.
~ Paulo Coelho
People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.
~ Paulo Coelho
During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.
~ Philip Emeagwali