Quotes About Discovery

At some point I thought I had grown a lump in my thigh, but it turned out to be a tangerine- it had fallen through a hole in the pocket and ended up trapped in the lining.

And rightly. Isn't there something to be researched, in every corner of God's creation? Isn't that what you've found, miss, in your travels?

It was happening again now: some pieces of some larger story that I could barely make out were flying into new positions, and I was remembering things I had forgotten, and putting them together differently, and all while I was sitting still and not going anywhere or doing anything—though in another way I was hurtling north at five hundred miles an hour.

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

This Life is More than Just a read through.

If you knew there was a beach where you could pick up gold nuggets like pebble stones, would you not go there? Go there.

It could be said that the discovery of ourselves is at the heart of what we call enlightenment, which is to say that that big, bright light at the end of the tunnel is us. The problem is that no one wants to discover that we're no better or no worse than the rest—indeed, to discover that we're no different than the rest—because that's no fun.

Your first discovery when you travel," wrote Elizabeth Hardwick, "is that you do not exist." In other words, it is not just the others who have been left behind; it is all of you that is known. Gone is the power or punishment of your family name, the hard-earned reputations of forebears, no

NO ROADS, NOT a single one, lead to the place where we had gotten ourselves.

I feel it is the duty of one who goes his own way to inform society of what he finds on his voyage of discovery,' he wrote.

I feel it is the duty of one who goes his own way to inform society of what he finds on his voyage of discovery" ~ Carl Gustave Jung

Those who reject the archetypal hypothesis remain unimpressed by the discovery of parallel themes in myths derived from different parts of the world,

Getting to know a difficult piece of music is comparable with getting to know a person who does not immediately reveal him- or herself, or who may appear to erect barriers against intimacy.

What he also records is his delight in discovering that, if only adults left him alone, he could, through reading, escape into a world of his own.

Parfois monter un escalier est la seule façon de savoir où il mène.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...

Man's "progress" is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning

The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

Something the doctors hadn't been able to figure out earlier, because, he found out later, Francis hadn't divulged to them his habitual cocaine use.