Quotes About Discovery

The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), When one travels abroad, one doesn't so much discover the hidden Wonders of the World, but the hidden wonders of the individuals with whom one is traveling. They may turn out to afford a stirring view, a rather dull landscape, or a terrain so treacherous one finds it's best to forget the entire affair and return home.

We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things.

She was inches from my face, really squinting , as if it were a section of a globe she'd never closely inspected before, an ocean filled with strings of unnamed islands.

Astrid taught me some of the words. I've never forgotten them. One was 'terulya.' It meant deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It's something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.

They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang.

I love to put my characters in the dark, it's only then that I can see exactly who they are

There were no street signs along Benton Hollow Road, no house numbers, no streetlights, not even any lines—just my car's faded headlights, which didn't so much push back the advancing dark as nervously rummage through it.

An interesting journey never follows a straight path

En su casa encontraron discos, cintas de vídeo, un juego de cartas, un ajedrez, en fin, todo lo que estaba prohibido...

It is one thing to be told what God is like; it could be another thing altogether to discover the truth for ourselves!

The scientist who would rather refute than comprehend demonstrates he has chosen the wrong calling.

Books are curious things. When they want to live, they find a way to become part of the lives that need them. From: The Familiar vol. 2: Into the Forest

Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.

This is the entrance To the city of you...

a reporter asked Barth what was the single most important theological discovery he'd made. After stopping to consider his answer carefully, Barth said, "Jesus loves me. This I know, for the Bible tells me so." Indeed, we can never outgrow that one great, majestic, and simple transforming truth.

In making a path like the Buddha, we discover our own capacities for relationship. Doing this is like feeling our way in the dark. We need a healthy appreciation for what kind of obstacles we are facing within ourselves, and we need a method for working our way around those obstacles. It is in this sense that the path is the goal - opening leads to further opening. The Buddha's meditative teachings are about finding and incorporating a method around our obstacles.

Eventually scientists will discover something that explains ghosts, just like they discovered electricity, which explained lightning, and it might be something about people's brains, or something about the earth's magnetic field, or it might be some new force altogether. And then ghosts won't be mysteries. They will be like electricity and rainbows and nonstick frying pans.

I will get a First Class Honors degree and I will become a scientist... And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

Lots of things are mystries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.

Eventually scientists will discover something that explains ghosts, just like they discovered electricity which explained lightning, and it might be something about people's brains, or something about the earth's magnetic field, or it might be some new force altogether. And then ghosts won't be mysteries. They will be like electricity and rainbows and non-stick frying pans.

said this. He kept on looking through

But sometimes it is fun not knowing what the words mean because you can look them up in a dictionary...

She is off the heart's map and her compass is spinning.

Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step.