Quotes About Discovery

She had discovered with surprise and pleasure that as she turned each page, the book was written, as if for the first time, all over again.

Books are doors that lead out into the street," Patricia would tell her. "You learn from them, educate yourself, travel, dream, imagine, live other lives, multiply your own life a thousand times. Where can you get more for your money, Mexicanita? And they also keep all sorts of bad things at bay: ghosts, loneliness, shit like that.

Sometimes," he said at last, as if it were an enormous effort to formulate his thoughts, "I wonder if chess is something man invented or if he merely discovered it. It's as if it were something that has always been there, since the beginning of the universe. Like whole numbers.

hay un ejercicio fascinante, a medio camino entre la literatura y la vida: visitar lugares leídos en libros

No me digan que no es vergonzoso para la especie humana haber medido la distancia de la Tierra al Sol, haber pesado todos los planetas cercanos, y no haber descubierto las leyes fecundas que hacen la felicidad de los pueblos.

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

He feels his soul slowly dissolving in a bitter lament for itself, whilst he searches desperately in his memory for a God to whom to offer up his repentance. And he discovers with surprise that he repents of nothing, although it is not clear either, as night closes in, that there is any God prepared to hear him.

Un momento de pelea, había dicho alguna vez el Almirante, descubre más sobre la naturaleza esencial del ser humano que siglos de cultura, educación y paz.

Pocas cosas hay tan trágicas en la vida como descubrir algo a destiempo

Mantenerse vivo, descubrí durante esos días, da muchas más fatigas que dejarse morir

Los libros son puertas que te llevan a la calle. Con ellos aprendes, te educas, viajas, sueñas, imaginas, vives otras vidas y multiplicas la tuya por mil.

La verdad es como la mejor jugada en ajedrez: existe, pero hay que buscarla. Con tiempo suficiente, siempre es demostrable.

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

A man should travel while he can, should go to distant places and return wiser.

I had closed my eyes and seen a place I hadn't known existed. There was no anger, no loneliness, no jagged icy fear gnawing at the wires of my body. For that one moment, the noise inside my head had turned still and silent. If hell was real and true and all around us, then heaven was too.

Every sense of progressing and moving ahead is backed by the fact that there is more to come to tell that you know nothing!

The most exciting place to discover talent is in yourself

Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction.

I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy

There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children.

Revealing aspects of the mystery of being human is life's inexhaustible research. Through the adventures of art, we find the meaning of our lives.

No, I will drag you to the Thames and throw you in. Let the watermen fish you out. They will if you offer them enough coin." He swallowed. "You are mad enough to do it." "I am. If I discover that you have spoken to her of this matter in any way, I advise you to dress in the suit you most wish to ruin.

I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.

Why would you need a DNA test? I already know you're a fucking space cadet.