Quotes About Discovery

One of the most common questions writers are asked is Where do you get your ideas? But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas can come at any time and from any direction: in the shower, waiting for an elevator, or while bouncing across Wikipedia pages.

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.

it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.

When we have lost ourselves, we have lost everything.

Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

How many new discoveries does not a person make when on some high point he ascends but a single story higher.

It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries,to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.

Abandoning the flatland ages past, And finding mountains much more to their taste, They toil in labyrinthine caverns, dense With gases that are metal's noble source; 10770 They separate, combine, test, trying to Discover things undreamt of hitherto. By spirit power, subtly, they construct Forms clear and crystalline, without defect; Then in the crystal's eternal silence peering, Perceive what in the upper world is occurring.

Very often when we have found ourselves forever separated from what we had intended to achieve, we have already, on our way, found something else worth desiring.

A young man who is full of presentiments believes that he can account for much and discover even more in mysteries, and that he must work by means of mysteries.

Evet, yeryüzünde bir gezginim yaln?zca, bir yolcu! Sizler bunun ötesinde misiniz sanki?

m-am gandit mult la nazuinta omului de a se intinde, de a face noi descoperiri, de a rataci incoace si incolo; pe urma, la inclinarea lui de a se supune de bunavoie ingradirii, de a pasi pe drumul obisnuintei, fara sa-i pese de ceea ce e la dreapta sau la stanga lui.

No one knows the extent of his powers unless he has tested them thoroughly.

Dear Wilhelm, I have thought a great deal about Man's desire to go out into the world, make new discoveries and go a-wandering, and, on the other hand, about that deep-seated impulse to be contented with limits that are imposed, and gladly to proceed as custom dictates, with no interest in what goes beyond the daily round.

Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühen?

Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new

I have often reflected, dear Wilhelm, on the eagerness of men to wander about and make new discoveries, and on that secret urge which afterwards makes them return to their narrow circle, conform to the customary path, and pay no attention to the right or the left.

Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.

Geheimnisse sind noch keine Wunder.

Seit der Zeit bin ich oft draußen.

Auf diesem Basar herumzugondolieren und auf die Frosch- und Spinnenjagd mit großer Freundlichkeit auszuziehen.

Io ora credo di essere sulla giusta via, considerandomi sempre un viaggiatore che perde molto per godere molto.

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space.