Quotes About Discovery

If we're born to inquire, then why must it be taught?

These days it's easier and less expensive to just try out your ideas than to figure out if you should try them out.

The What If stage is the blue-sky moment of questioning, when anything is possible. Those possibilities may not survive the more practical How stage; but it's critical to innovation that there be a time for wild, improbable ideas to surface and to inspire.

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air, and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

This works well under most circumstances, but when we wish to move beyond that default setting—to consider new ideas and possibilities, to break from habitual thinking and expand upon our existing knowledge—it helps if we can let go of what we know, just temporarily.

At the end of the day, it isn't where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I'm going and never have been before.

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to "walk about" into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?

Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracted by it, wants to grasp it, burns its finger in the process, and thus learns fear and respect for the flame.

No, that's not the case at all. Shishio's logic dictates that the winner of a battle, in other words, the strong, is always correct that it does. If the truth could be discovered through fighting one or two battles, then we'd all be going through life without ever being wrong. A person's life isn't so simple a matter that it isn't. The true answer is something you find out yourself by how you live your life from this day onward that it is." -Kenshin

I felt something rough brush against my leg. I yelped and jerked it away instinctively. "What?" Shane asked. Before I even lowered my head, I knew. Underneath me I saw the sleek gray body gliding below.

the world could be wonderfully exotic when viewed through the bottom of a cocktail glass.

keep trying to fit into the conventional system but something beckons you beyond that, and you're not even sure how to explain it. Your

the greatest journeys of our lives begin so simply that we don't even know we've embarked on them until we're well down the road looking back.

Adventures are funny things. Some streak down upon you like a storm. Others emerge after many years have passed and something forgotten is revealed. They can be discovered on a dusty bookshelf or the yellowed pages of an ancient map. They promise great reward, but no adventure is without risk.

Adventures are funny things. Many are merely happy accidents—a single spark that ignites an unexpected chain of events. But some adventures are meant for you and you alone. And whether you want them or not, they seek you out of a great crowd and take you somewhere you never thought you'd go. Often, these unlooked for adventures require a sacrifice too great to imagine.

Adventures are funny things. They always begin with the unexpected, but they always end wit the promise of adventures yet to comestoriai

Sometimes the way forward is the way back.

I know I am a writer because until I'm writing I don't know what I know.

THIS which is seeking is THAT which is sought, and THAT which is sought is THIS which is seeking.

he saw something—or someone—unfamiliar.

Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.