Quotes About Discovery

El amor sano no es una tabla de mandamientos ni un listado de códigos, sino un proceso vital de descubrimiento y crecimiento personal. Amas a una persona cuando respetas su capacidad de crearse a sí misma.

al estar excesivamente atentos a los rechazos descubren "más rechazos" de lo normal:67 "el que busca, encuentra".

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

But now everything's gone bad,and I only know one thing: I have six days. Six days to figure out who I really am.

Even at the end of the road, there is a road. Even at the end of the road, a new road stretches out, limitless and open, a road that may lead anywhere. To him who will find it, there is always a road.

With Ted she was about to discover the God of Physical Love.

If there had been no gold discovery, Oregon would probably have been ready for admission as a state before California was. The first transcontinental railroad might have been built to Oregon. But if California's first transcontinental railroad had been built later, it might have been in the hands of a somewhat less rapacious group of men, and it might have obtained less of a stranglehold on the state's economy and politics.

Sara bit her lip, drawing blood, as she reflected on the many times she'd questioned Mama about her biological father. Who was he, where did he live, and how come Mama refused to talk about

socrates. There's one proposition that I'd defend to the death, if I could, by argument and by action: that as long as we think we should search for what we don't know, we'll be better people—less faint-hearted and less lazy—than if we were to think that we had no chance of discovering what we don't know and that there's no point in even searching for it. Meno 86bc

nothing to be done, except go see them. I also knew they

Always the beautiful answer Who asks a more beautiful question. —E.E. Cummings

For a questioner, it's important to spend time with challenging questions instead of trying to answer them right away. By "living with" a question, thinking about it and then stepping away from it, allowing it to marinate, you give your brain a chance to come up with the kinds of fresh insights and What If possibilities that can lead to breakthroughs.

That word process is key. You don't just "find" answers to complex life problems (or any type of complex problem, including business ones). You work your way, gradually, toward figuring out those answers, relying on questions each step of the way.

Importantly, the professor was also "willing to ask questions without knowing the answer. Teachers and professors, we think our authority rests on having answers. But students find it really liberating to have a teacher say, 'I don't know the answer—so let's figure this out together.

The designer George Lois, who claims some of his best ideas have come while meandering through the Metropolitan Museum, says, "Museums are the custodians of epiphanies.")

What do you want to say? Why does it need to be said

or flashlights that, in the words of Dan Rothstein of the Right Question Institute (RQI), "shine a light on where you need6 to go.

embrace ignorance

One good question can give rise to several layers of answers, can inspire decades-long searches for solutions, can generate whole new fields of inquiry, and can prompt changes in entrenched thinking," Firestein writes. "Answers, on the other hand, often end the process.

Rothstein maintains. "Just asking or hearing a question phrased a certain way produces an almost palpable feeling of discovery and new understanding. Questions produce the lightbulb effect.

we all live in the world our questions create.

Fear is the enemy of curiosity

That's because with each new advance, Thrun said, one must pause to ask, Now that we know what we now know, what's possible now?

This great quote from Close was featured recently on the site BrainPickings: "Ask yourself an interesting enough question3 and your attempt to find a tailor-made solution to that question will push you to a place where, pretty soon, you'll find yourself all by your lonesome—which I think is a more interesting place to be.")